The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.
And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
They say, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for no one will rescue him.”