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Knowing the word of God

John 19: 28
"After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, 'I thirst!'"

Living Water
The scripture this verse is referring to is Psalm 69:21

"They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."

The events of the cross are a culmination of a multitude of messianic prophecies. This statement He makes from the cross is no different. But I believe Jesus is saying more than that with these two words.

This verse says He knew all things were accomplished. He was done. He had completed the work He had come to the world to complete. He was about to give up His spirit and in the final moments of bearing the sins of the world on His shoulders he says, "I thirst". There was another time Jesus was thirsty.

In John 4:7-14, Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman:

"A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink." For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Jesus, on the cross, may have been demonstrating that as He bore our sins, He understood our emptiness.

As sinners, we are always thirsting for something. We are always looking to fill that God-sized hole in our heart. When we come to Christ, He gives us living water so that the thirst we once knew, would ever be filled with Him.

As He was completing the work of our redemption He may have been feeling that emptiness that we feel as sinners. He may have been saying once more, 'I get you! I understand you! I've been there!'

How amazing is it that we not only have a Savior who bore our sin and shame, but He also knows firsthand what we are going through. He knows what it feels like!! He gets us!! Such amazing grace!!

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