28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
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They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)Here are some remarkable circumstances of Christ’s dying more fully related than before, which those will take special notice of who covet to know Christ and him crucified. I. The title set up over his head. Observe, 1. The inscription itself which Pilate wrote, and ordered to be fixed to the top of the cross, declaring the cause for which he was crucified, John 19:19. Matthew called it, aitia — t…
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