john 19 commentary spurgeon

From the sky the angels viewed him with wonder and amazement; the spirits of the just looked from the windows of heaven upon the scene, yea, the great God and Father watched each movement of his suffering Son. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" 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." The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. III. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. 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. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. One word: transformation. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 1. 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. 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. "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." My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. 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. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Can they be compared to generous wine? "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. Let this mind be in you also. 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. 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. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" here we see the Mediator interceding: Jesus standing before the Father pleading for the guilty. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Amen. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. This hint only. Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." That thirst was caused, perhaps, in part by the loss of blood, and by the fever created by the irritation caused by his four grievous wounds. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Brother, thirst to have your children save. 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. 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. He is not allowed to worship with them. What doth he say? How they led him forth we do not know. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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. 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. Let patience have her perfect work. Sit at his feet with Mary, lean on his breast with John; yea, come with the spouse in the song and say, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine." He believed, as a Roman in gods many. "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." what a black thought crosses our mind! Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. 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! 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. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. Inductive Bible study on John 19. You may die so, you may die now. III. Whether a disciple then or not, we have every reason to believe that he became so afterwards; he was the father, we read, of Alexander and Rufus, two persons who appear to have been well known in the early Church; let us hope that salvation came to his house when he was compelled to bear the Savior's cross. Nor is this all. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. Is not this a fertile field of thought? Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Oh! Lectures to My Students - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1889 Lessons from the Apostle Paul's Prayers - Charles Spurgeon 2018-02-19 Why study and pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul? It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. 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. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. good God! 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. 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." Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. 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. 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. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. John 19:16 . 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. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. who would stand in your place, ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake O sword against the rebel, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever!" 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