After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, “I thirst.”—John 19:28

Our text is the shortest of all the words of Calvary; it stands as two words in our language-“I thirst,” but in the Greek it is only one. I cannot say that it is short and sweet, for, alas, it was bitterness itself to our Lord Jesus; and yet out of its bitterness I trust there will come great sweetness to us. 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. Jesus said, “I thirst,” and this is the complaint of a man. 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. “The sea is His, and He made it,” and all fountains and springs are of His digging. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. One would have said, If He were thirsty, He would not tell us, for all the clouds and rains would be glad to refresh His brow, and the brooks and streams would joyously flow at His feet. 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.” How truly man He is; He is, indeed, “bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh,” for He bears our infirmities. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. Jesus was proved to be really man, because He suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Angels cannot suffer thirst. 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…Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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