john 19 commentary spurgeon

Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. 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! We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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. So he was thirsting then. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. 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. Think of that! It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . The ceremonial of the Jewish religion denies him any participation in its pomps; the priests condemn him never again to tread the hallowed floors, never again to look upon the consecrated altars in the place of his people's worship. John 19:3. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 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. A second mode of treating these seven cries is to view them as setting forth the person and offices of our Lord who uttered them. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. I have sometimes met with persons who have suffered much; they have lost money, they have worked hard all their lives, or they have laid for years upon a bed of sickness, and they therefore suppose that because they have suffered so much in this life, they shall thus escape the punishment of sin hereafter. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Some of us, indeed, confess that, if we had read this narrative of suffering in a romance, we should have wept copiously, but the story of Christ's sufferings does not cause the excitement and emotion one would expect. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? 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!" Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. Conceal your religion? Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. I pray you, lend your ears to such faint words as I can utter on a subject all too high for me, the march of the world's Maker along the way of his great sorrow; your Redeemer traversing the rugged path of suffering, along which he went with heaving heart and heavy footsteps, that he might pave a royal road of mercy for his enemies. Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS 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. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. 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. "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. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. C.H. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. It is done. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. Nor does the grief end here, for have not the best works we have ever done, and the best feelings we ever felt, and the best prayers we have ever offered, been tart and sour with sin? Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. "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." Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? We ought all to have a longing for conversions. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. 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." Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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." 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! The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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. Simon had to carry the cross but for a very little time, yet his name is in this Book for ever, and we may envy him his honor. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! It was the common place of death. As for myself, I would grow more and more insatiable after my divine Lord, and when I have much of him I would still cry for more; and then for more, and still for more. I show unto you a more excellent way. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. Today! 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. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. " And having said this, He breathed His last. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. 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. 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. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. Some of you will! By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." Take up your cross daily and follow him. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. 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. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? The nails were fastened in the most sensitive parts of the body, and the wounds were widened as the weight of his body dragged the nails through his blessed flesh, and tore his tender nerves. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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." 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. "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." O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. And what makes him love us so? He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. 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." The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. "Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise" this is the Lord Jesus in kingly power, opening with the key of David a door which none can shut, admitting into the gates of heaven the poor soul who had confessed him on the tree. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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." 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. 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. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. 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." 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. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. what a black thought crosses our mind! 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." 19:1-18 Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in after-ages, be thought upon and spoken of by the best and greatest of men. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. 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. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. 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. 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. III. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean 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. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. "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. 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