After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst.
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and when I saw this our savior being stretched out the one statement that I never saw before I found it in John chapter 19 verse 28 it's the second to last statement that our savior ever said he said later knowing that everything had now been finished after they beat him and mocked him and he took everything just for us. He said he knew the scripture would be fulfilled. And look at the one statement that Jesus said before he said, it is finished. He said, I am thirsty. What? The last thing that one of the last things he would ever say is, I'm thirsty. He said, everything that you would be thirsty for, I took it. And he said, the only reason that I would say I'm thirsty is because I just poured out everything that I had just for you. God, I'm thirsty. So they don't have to be. It is. Finished. And he gave up his life. They didn't take it. He gave it up for me and for you. …
as I've been stating over and over again, it's not your only hope in the sense that there's nothing else, and I guess we've been reduced down to this final choice. The fact of the matter is, what's transpiring this day, this night in history, is our only hope of eternal life and salvation because of what was written, because of who Jesus Christ is and was and is again. The one who gave his life, who willingly gave his life, who the prophets foretold would do exactly that. You just read eyewitness accounts of events that are in complete correlation with those of the Roman Empire and their subsequent investigation of the crucifixion of Christ and how it was handled. This is something that transcends religion. The fact that Jesus Christ came into this world as the prophets foretold, but all with a mission. Jesus said regarding this day, for this reason came I into the world. It's absolutely awesome. And so as we look at these things very quickly, friends, with the time that we have together, I want you to consider seven things very quickly. …
"After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst." John 19:28. THE early Christians were known to think and talk far more of our Savior than we do. Some of them were, perhaps, not quite so clear upon justification by faith as they ought to have been, but they were very clear about the merits of the precious blood. And if they did not always speak very clearly about the Doctrines of Grace, they spoke with wonderful power and savor about the "five" wounds—about the nail marks and the spear wound. I could wish that our religion would go back somewhat more to that personal apprehension of Christ than it does. By all means let us have dogmatic teaching, setting forth those most precious Truths of God that are our consolation, but better than all is the Person of Christ Himself—the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We should do well if we more often stood in meditation at the foot of the Cross and viewed His wounds, counted the precious drops as they fall and sought fellowship with Him in His sufferings. Some of those early saints wrote long treatises on the solitary wounds of Jesus—many of them passed whole days in contemplation of some minute part of His passion. We cannot imitate them in this respect—we have not the leisure. I am afraid we have not the mental application they possessed. Nevertheless, let us explore the sacred mystery as best we can. At this time would we get away to Calvary and there stand and hear our Redeemer crying, "I thirst," as He bears for us the guilt of sin. …