they gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.
They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Then they gave Him wine mingled with myrrh to drink, but He did not take it.
Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink.
“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, And let us enter the fortified cities, And let us be silent there. For the Lord our God has put us to silence And given us water of gall to drink, Because we have sinned against the Lord.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,