But the others said, “Wait, let us see if Elijah is coming to save him!”
A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, “In the name of the Lord, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so.”
They say, “God has abandoned him; let's go after him and catch him; there is no one to rescue him.”
One of them ran up at once, took a sponge, soaked it in cheap wine, put it on the end of a stick, and tried to make him drink it.
Jesus again gave a loud cry and breathed his last.