“Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’”
John 19:28
When Jesus was about to die, He spoke the words that He was thirsty. He’d been falsely accused, tried, and beaten. Then He carried His own heavy cross up a hill. Distress and thirst consumed Him.
We are told of an earlier time Jesus was thirsty. Traveling through Samaria, He sat down to rest by a well. It was midday, and when a woman came to draw water, He asked her for a drink. She was shocked because she—a Samaritan—and a Jew would not normally associate with each other. Jesus told her, “If you knew … who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water … whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst” (John 4: 10, 14).
Our hearts will thirst unendingly until we realize we long for our Savior. It’s that same longing quenched only by the Holy Spirit which Jesus presents in a shocking picture for us on the cross. The very One who is the Living Water was thirsty. He endured being forsaken by the Father in every way … all so that we might be brought near to Him and thirst no more.
We are told of an earlier time Jesus was thirsty. Traveling through Samaria, He sat down to rest by a well. It was midday, and when a woman came to draw water, He asked her for a drink. She was shocked because she—a Samaritan—and a Jew would not normally associate with each other. Jesus told her, “If you knew … who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water … whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst” (John 4: 10, 14).
Our hearts will thirst unendingly until we realize we long for our Savior. It’s that same longing quenched only by the Holy Spirit which Jesus presents in a shocking picture for us on the cross. The very One who is the Living Water was thirsty. He endured being forsaken by the Father in every way … all so that we might be brought near to Him and thirst no more.
Scripture Focus
John 19:28-29
Insight
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!” (Isaiah 55:1)
Bible In A Year
- Joshua 19-20
- Psalm 106
- Romans 5-6