But the rest said, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him.”
Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”
They say, “God has abandoned him. Pursue, and seize him! No one will come to the rescue!”
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.
But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit.