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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. Conservative, but not too much depth. Barrabas may go free; the thief and the murderer may be spared; but for Christ there is no word, but "Away with such a fellow from the earth! Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. He must love, it is his nature. But how vast was the disparity! 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. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com Nor is this all. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! 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. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. How they led him forth we do not know. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. The Church, the bride of Christ, was there conformed to the image of her Lord; she was there, I say, in Simon, bearing the cross, and in the women weeping and lamenting. Even if I may not come at him, yet shall I be full of consolation, for it is heaven to thirst after him, and surely he will never deny a poor soul liberty to admire him, and adore him, and thirst after him." Oh! 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." The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. 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. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! He cried, ere he bowed the head which he had held erect amid all his conflict, as one who never yielded, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." In that cry there is reconciliation to God. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. Oh! Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. What doth he say? "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. Separately or in connection our Master's words overflow with instruction to thoughtful minds: but of all save one I must say, "Of which we cannot now speak particularly." Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! 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. 36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"[ a] 37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."[ b] Read full chapter Footnotes My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. He had no sooner said "I thirst," and sipped the vinegar, than he shouted, "It is finished"; and all was over: the battle was fought and the victory won for ever, and our great Deliverer's thirst was the sign of his having smitten the last foe. The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. I suppose that the "I thirst" was uttered softly, so that perhaps only one and another who stood near the cross heard it at all; in contrast with the louder cry of "Lama sabachthani" and the triumphant shout of "It is finished": but that soft, expiring sigh, "I thirst," has ended for us the thirst which else, insatiably fierce, had preyed upon us throughout eternity. 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. 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. It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. It is said that a German regiment was at that time stationed in Judea, and I should not wonder if they were the lineal ancestors of those German theologians of modern times who have mocked the Savior, tampered with revelation, and cast the vile spittle of their philosophy into the face of truth. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein." John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. 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." Let all your love be his. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. "It is finished" is the last word but one, and there you see the perfected Saviour, the Captain of our salvation, who has completed the undertaking upon which he had entered, finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought in ever lasting righteousness. The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. Inductive Bible study on John 19. Today! Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. If he carried all the cross, yet he only carried the wood of it; he did not bear the sin which made it such a load. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 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