Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine
Insult has broken my heart, and I despair; I looked for compassion, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.
they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink.
Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge; he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink.
One of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.”
[Even] Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate.