They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. Oh! So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. 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. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. 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. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? " And having said this, He breathed His last. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. January 1, 1970 A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." John vi. 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." Beloved, let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? Even when man compassionates the sufferings of Christ, and man would have ceased to be human if he did not, still he scorns him; the very cup which man gives to Jesus is at once scorn and pity, for "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Though bitter to him in the speaking it will be sweet to us in the hearing, so sweet that all the bitterness of our trials shall be forgotten as we remember the vinegar and gall of which he drank. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. The most Scriptural way to describe the sufferings of Christ is not by laboring to excite sympathy through highly-coloured descriptions of his blood and wounds. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! Some of them have no objection to worship with a poor congregation till they grow rich, and then, forsooth, they must go with the world's church, to mingle with fashion and gentility. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. John 19:28 . Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. 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." 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. It came from the parched lips of the Divine Victim towards the close of his agony, and after the darkness which endured from the sixth to the ninth hour. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." And yet again in the eighth chapter the bride saith, "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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! 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. II. "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. Let me show what I think he meant. Let all your love be his. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? What doth he say? 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. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. O brother, if he says, "I thirst" and you bring him a lukewarm heart, that is worse than vinegar, for he has said, "I will spue thee out of my mouth." 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. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. Let patience have her perfect work. He is exiled from their friendship, too. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 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. John 19:7-8. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. Think of that! 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. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. ye Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favor, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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." A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? We thought sometimes that we loved him as we heard the story of his death, but we did not change our lives for his sake, nor put our trust in him, and so we gave him vinegar to drink. Next time your fevered lips murmur "I am very thirsty," you may say to yourself, "Those are sacred words, for my Lord spake in that fashion." The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? 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. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. 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! Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." It was, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!" 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." I fear me, beloved, I fear me that the most of us if we ever do carry it, carry it by compulsion, at least when it first comes on to our shoulders we do not like it, and would fain run from it, but the world compels us to bear Christ's cross. 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. He must love, it is his nature. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." 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. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. These solemn sentences have shone like the seven golden candlesticks or the seven stars of the Apocalypse, and have lighted multitudes of men to him who spake them. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. High in the air ye bid your banners wave about the heir of England's throne, but how shall ye rival the banner of the sacred cross, that day for the first time borne among the sons of men. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. Now recollect, if Jesus had not thirsted, every one of us would have thirsted for ever afar off from God, with an impassable gulf between us and heaven. 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." Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? the people saw him in the street, not arrayed in the purple robe, but wearing his garment without seam, woven from the top throughout, the common smock-frock, in fact, of the countrymen of Palestine, and they said at once, "Yes, 'tis he, the man who healed the sick, and raised the dead; the mighty teacher who was wont to sit upon the mountain-top, or stand in the temple courts and preach with authority, and not as the Scribes." Justice must fly the field lest it be severe to so deserving a being; as for punishment, it must not be whispered to his ears polite. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. It is so with each one of you? "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. what a black thought crosses our mind! The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. This added to his shame; but, methinks, in this, too, he draws the nearer to us, "He was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." For him they have no tolerance. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. I like to think of our Lord's saying, "It is finished," directly after he had exclaimed, "I thirst"; for these two voices come so naturally together. The conquest of the appetites, the entire subjugation of the flesh, must be achieved, for before our great Exemplar said, "It is finished," wherein methinks he reached the greatest height of all, he stood as only upon the next lower step to that elevation, and said, "I thirst." We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. Scripture provides a wealth . I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. Dear fountain of delight unknown! Thus have I tried to spy out a measure of teaching, by using that one glass for the soul's eye, through which we look upon "I thirst" as the ensign of his true humanity. It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. Weep not for him, but for these. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Amen. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. It is not fit that he should live." If not, bestir yourselves at once. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. 1. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was to be rifled, and himself destroyed, by that crucified Son of man. He ran and filled a sponge with vinegar: it was the best way he knew of putting a few drops of moisture to the lips of one who was suffering so much; but though he felt a degree of pity, it was such as one might show to a dog; he felt no reverence, but mocked as he relieved. Jesus is therefore hunted out of the city, beyond the gate, with the will and force of his oven nation, but he journeys not against his own will; even as the lamb goeth as willingly to the shambles as to the meadow, so doth Christ cheerfully take up his cross and go without the camp. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Take up your cross daily and follow him. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? The last word but one, "It is finished." For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. Conceal your religion? John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. Let this mind be in you also. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." Oh! What knocks he for? 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. I cannot give you more than a mere taste of this rich subject, but I have been most struck with two ways of regarding our Lord's last words. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. 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. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! souls, I do beseech you, by the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the curse; do not bear in your own persons the awful wrath to come! What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. 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