Betrayal and arrest in the garden. How has it been with you? away with him." Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. you that are ashamed of Christ, how can you read that text, "He that is ashamed of me, and of my words, of him will I be ashamed when I come in the glory of my Father, and all my holy angels with me." Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." And they asked him, What then? I. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. III. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. Christ does exempt you from sin, but not from sorrow; he does take the curse of the cross, but he does not take the cross of the curse away from you. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." "Women, behold thy son!" and the answer shall come back, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." Godly working-men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. There were, as you know, seven of those last words, and seven is the number of perfection and fulness; the number which blends the three of the infinite God with the four of complete creation. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Is not this a fertile field of thought? See how man at his best mingles admiration of the Saviour's person with scorn of his claims; writing books to hold him up as an example and at the same moment rejecting his deity; admitting that he was a wonderful man, but denying his most sacred mission; extolling his ethical teaching and then trampling on his blood: thus giving him drink, but that drink vinegar. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. I tell you, sirs, that yonder malefactor carried his cross and died on it; and you will carry your sorrows, and be damned with them, except you repent. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Oh! I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." He is greatly to be commended and admired, for his sin is said to be seeking after God, and his superstition is a struggling after light. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. No blood but that which He has spilt, no groans but those which came from His heart, no suffering but that which was endured by Him, can ever make a recompense for sin. The excitement of a great struggle makes men forget thirst and faintness; it is only when all is over that they come back to themselves and note the spending of their strength. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. He sipped of the vinegar, and he was refreshed, and no sooner has he thrown off the thirst than he shouted like a conqueror, "It is finished," and quitted the field, covered with renown. Christ did but transfer to Simon the outward frame, the mere tree; but the curse of the tree, which was our sin and its punishment, rested on Jesus' shoulders still. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. I cannot roll up into one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Christ who died for us, therefore it is impossible for me to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Brother, thirst to have your children save. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? Romanists of all ages have wrought upon the feelings of the people in this manner, and to a degree the attempt is commendable, but if it shall all end in tears of pity, no good is done. John 19:16 . It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Think of that! Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. I have heard sermons, and studied works by Romish writers upon the passion and agony, which have moved me to copious tears, but I am not clear that all the emotion was profitable. Perhaps, dear sister, you carry about with you a gnawing disease which eats at your heart, but Jesus took our sicknesses, and his cup was more bitter than yours. In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." This hint only. The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. He saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? It is not fit that he should live." London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. And what makes him love us so? For him they have no tolerance. Dear fountain of delight unknown! It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." Complain not, then. IV. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Conservative, but not too much depth. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. John 19:7-8. He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. His wounds unstaunched and raw, fresh bleeding from beneath the lash, would make this scarlet robe adhere to him, and when it was dragged off; his gashes would bleed anew. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! 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