36And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
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They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-43)In these verses we have, I. Divers passages which we had before in Matthew and Mark concerning Christ’s sufferings. 1. That there were two others, malefactors, led with him to the place of execution, who, it is probable, had been for some time under sentence of death, and were designed to be executed on this day, which was probably the pretence for making such haste in the prosecution of Christ, t…
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