This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. The sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? 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!" 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. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Have you repented of sin? Let this mind be in you also. That little rising ground, which perhaps was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, from its somewhat resembling the crown of a man's skull, was the common place of execution. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? 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." There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. " And having said this, He breathed His last. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. This very plainly sets forth the true and proper humanity of Christ, who to the end recognised his human relationship to Mary, of whom he was born. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. 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. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? 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." We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. C.H. 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! There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. If we weep for the sufferings of Christ in the same way as we lament the sufferings of another man, our emotions will be only natural, and may work no good. Our Lord felt that grievous drought of dissolution by which all moisture seems dried up, and the flesh returns to the dust of death: this those know who have commenced to tread the valley of the shadow of death. 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. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. The last word but one, "It is finished." It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. 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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." A phantom, as some have called him, could not suffer in his fashion: but Jesus really suffered, not only the more refined pains of delicate and sensitive minds, but the rougher and commoner pangs of flesh and blood. The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. Great and worshipful being that he is, truth is to be altered for him, the gospel is to be modulated to suit the tone of his various generations, and all the arrangements of the universe are to be rendered subservient to his interests. John 19:7-8. Let there be nothing but your religion to object to, and then if that offends them let them be offended, it is a cross which you must carry joyfully. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. God forbid! Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Think of the millions in this dark world! Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. "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. I. IV. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. 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 Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. 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. There is a fulness of meaning in each utterance which no man shall be able fully to bring forth, and when combined they make up a vast deep of thought, which no human line can fathom. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. Cover it with a cloak? Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. So he was thirsting then. 1. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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. II. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. 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. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. It was pain that dried his mouth and made it like an oven, till he declared, in the language of the twenty-second psalm, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws." Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. We do not thirst after the old manner wherein we were bitterly afflicted, for he hath said, "He that drinketh of this water shall never thirst:" but now we covet a new thirst. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid: It shows he was afraid all along the coward the vacillating coward and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. "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." He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Let us exult as we see our Substitute going through with his work even to the bitter end, and then with a "Consummatum est" returning to his Father, God. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? But how vast was the disparity! points to the anguish of his soul; "I thirst" expresses in part the torture of his body; and they were both needful, because it is written of the God of justice that he is "able to destroy both soul and body in hell," and the pangs that are due to law are of both kinds, touching both heart and flesh. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. How has it been with you? We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. Thou wast still straightened till the last pang was felt and the last word spoken to complete to full redemption, and hence thy cry, "I thirst." Jesus is formally condemned to crucifixion, but before he is led away he is given over to the Praetorian guards that those rough legionaries may insult him. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. ", When a brother makes confession of his transgressions, when on his knees before God he humbles himself with many tears, I am sure the Lord thinks far more of the tears of repentance than he would do of the mere drops of human sympathy. Remember that, and expect to suffer. 29. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . 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. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Go ye, then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill-name, and to earn reproach; go ye, like him, without the camp. 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. What doth he say? Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And now, brethren, our blessed Lord has at this time a thirst for communion with each one of you who are his people, not because you can do him good, but because he can do you good. 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." 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 this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. 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. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And said, Hail, King of the Jews! "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. 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