James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 19:28
THE THIRST OF CHRIST‘I thirst.’ John 19:28 There breaks from the Cross one short, swift word, the only cry through the day’s long hours, which speaks of His own physical agony. Yet we cannot read these words as merely being signs of bodily suffering; there is a deeper spiritual meaning in the words as we read them now. I. He thirsted for men.—How He thirsted for men! Was that thirst satisfied? Did it have no result? Was He disappointed at all? Nay, one of the soldiers, we read, dipped a... read more
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 19:26-27
THE MOST PATHETIC PHRASE IN GOD’S WORD‘Woman, behold thy son!… Behold thy mother!’ John 19:26-Daniel : There was a brief lull in the tempest which surged round the Cross of Christ, and the women who had been looking on afar off, His mother and the women from Galilee, emboldened by the falling back of the crowd, drew near to the foot of the Cross. One disciple returned, the beloved John, and so through all the long agony, through all the awful darkness, as the lonely cry rang out, His loved... read more