Matthew 27:34 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁴ 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.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ They offered Him wine mingled with gall to drink; but when He tasted it, He refused to drink it.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted it, he would not drink.

Common English Bible

³⁴ they gave Jesus wine mixed with vinegar to drink. But after tasting it, he didn’t want to drink it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ And they gave him wine to drink, mixed with gall. And when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he had tasted, he would not drink.

Matthew 27:34 Cross References

Matthew 27:48

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.

Mark 15:23

They offered Him wine, mixed with aromatic spices, but He refused to accept it. [Note: Matt. 27:34 calls this “gall,” a bitter drug for the purpose of dulling the pain of crucifixion].

Hebrews 6:4

For it is impossible to get people who were once enlightened [by the Gospel message], and who had experienced the gift from heaven [i.e., forgiveness, never ending life, etc. See Rom. 6:23], and who had partaken of the [indwelling] Holy Spirit [See Acts 2:38],