The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.