One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink. “Wait!” he said. “Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down!”
But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.
One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.
They offered him wine drugged with myrrh, but he refused it.
Some of the bystanders misunderstood and thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.
Then Jesus uttered another loud cry and breathed his last.
The soldiers mocked him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine.