The rest said, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah will come to save Him.”
Immediately one of them ran, took a sponge, filled it with wine, and put it on a stick, and gave it to Him to drink.
And Jesus, when He had cried out again with a loud voice, released His spirit.
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years except by my word.”
saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is no one to deliver him.”