Our Redeemer's Holy Thirsting
"After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst ." -John 19:28 [KJV] After this, that is, I conceive, (though I do not presume to mark the very order in which the Lord Jesus uttered His loud cries upon the cross,) after His complaint of desertion: for whether this was the fourth or fifth of the seven last words of the Redeemer, I dare not determine: yet the words themselves were highly important, and significant of great things, in reference to Jesus and His people. Jesus thus cried, that the scriptures might be fulfilled, it is said; for it had been prophesied of Him, that gall was given Him to eat—and, when thirsty, vinegar to drink, Psalm 69:21 . And the soldiers, unconscious of what they did in fulfilling this very prophecy, gave Him a sponge dipped in vinegar. But, my soul, was it the thirst of the body thy Jesus complained of? I think not. He had before declared, at His last supper, that H