48And 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.
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They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. …
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-49)We have here the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus. I. The place where our Lord Jesus was put to death. 1. They came to a place called Golgotha, near adjoining to Jerusalem, probably the common place of execution. If he had had a house of his own in Jerusalem, probably, for his greater disgrace, they would have crucified him before his own door. But now in the same place where criminals were sacrifice…
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