5/5/2014 Jesus said, "I am thirsty." (John 19:28) John - PDF document

5/5/2014 …Jesus said, "I am thirsty." (John 19:28) John 19:28-29, NIV …so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty." A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it up to Jesus' lips. Psalm 69:21, NIV They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst. 1

5/5/2014 John 19:28, NLT &19:28 & 30, NIV ; Mark 15:37, NIV Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and…he said, "I am thirsty"…When he had received the drink…with a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. • He needed food (Matthew 4:2) • He needed rest breaks (John 4:6) • He needed sleep (Mark 4:35) • He needed water! (John 19:28) Isaiah 53:2-3, NLT There was nothing beautiful and majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was…a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. Hebrews 2:18, NLT Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested. 2

5/5/2014 For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death, he had the honesty and courage to take his own medicine…he himself has gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money, to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death…whatever game we might think he is playing with [us], he has kept his own rules and played fair. Dorothy Sayers Matthew 25:34-35, 37 & 40, NIV …Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For…I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink…Then the righteous ones will reply, "When did we ever see you…thirsty and give you a drink?"...And the King will say, "I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!" John 7:37-38, NIV On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." 3

5/5/2014 John 4:14, NIV …whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring welling up to eternal life. Revelation 7:16-17, NIV …never again will they thirst…For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 4