John 19:30

In the last branch of this part of the Chapter, we have Christs Testament and death recorded. After he hath received of the vinegar, he publickly proclaimeth that by what he had suffered and was even now to undergo, he had finished all that was committed to him, and so voluntarily and submissively yeilded up the ghost. Whence learn, 1. Albeit Christ refused the wine mingled with mirthe, (as was marked on the former verses) because he would not be stupified in suffering, but would be active and voluntary in it; that so he might commend his love, and teach us to avoid unsensiblenesse under trials: Yet now he receives the vinegar, and (at least) tasts of it, in testimony of his subjection to God who had foreprophecied of this lot, and to teach us subjection to what God appoints for us in all things. 2. Christ closed not his sufferings till all was finished he had to do; He not only endured the utmost extremities of enemies malice, and bare them all, but, He fulfilled all Scripture-prophecies, and the substance of all the types were accomplished in him. He fulfilled all that God determined to be payed for expiating of sin, so that no more ransome is to be payed; And so did finish the work of our Redemption, and purchased that whereby we are perfected for ever: for, saith he, It is finished, whereby he not only gives an account that he had finished what was hitherto required or fore prophesied, but by this testament he gives a comfortable account of his immediatly ensuing death also. See Joh. 17.2. 3. Death, and no lesse then death, is the wages of sinne: Therefore, after the former sufferings, our surety behooved also to give up the ghost, to finish his work. 4 Christ, by undergoing bodily death for his people, hath hereby purchased that however they must die, yet death is no punishment of sin to them; for, his suffering of death hath taken that sting out of it 5. Christ did not die by constraint, but voluntarily, and of his own accord, yeilded himselfe deaths prisoner; for, whereas the bowing of the head is naturally a signe of death, Christ before he died, bowed his head, in testimony that he died voluntarily, and went to meet death, and gave up the ghost, by a real separation of soul and body, which could not have been if his body had been every where 6. Whatever desertions Christ endured as our Surety, yet it tends to our great comfort, that he died at peace and reconciled to his Father; So much is imported in that he gave up, or rendred the ghost, or his Spirit, into the hands of his Father, as is further cleared from his last prayer, Luke 23.46.