they offered Jesus wine mixed with a bitter drug [i.e., for the purpose of dulling the pain of crucifixion. Mark 15:23 calls it “myrrh”], but when He tasted it He refused to drink it.
Luke 23:36 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) The soldiers also mocked Him; they came to Him, offering Him sour wine [to drink], More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The soldiers also ridiculed and made sport of Him, coming up and offering Him vinegar (a sour wine mixed with water) [Ps. 69:21.] American Standard Version (1901) And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar, Common English Bible The soldiers also mocked him. They came up to him, offering him sour wine Catholic Public Domain Version And the soldiers also ridiculed him, approaching him and offering him vinegar, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, |
they offered Jesus wine mixed with a bitter drug [i.e., for the purpose of dulling the pain of crucifixion. Mark 15:23 calls it “myrrh”], but when He tasted it He refused to drink it.
And immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, soaked it in sour wine and, attaching it to a stick, [lifted it up] and offered Jesus a drink.
Then one of the soldiers ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on a stick and gave it to Him to drink, saying, “Let him alone; let us see if Elijah comes to take him down [from the cross].”
Then Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt and mocked Him. They dressed Him in a luxurious robe and then sent Him back to Pilate.