One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.
But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.
The soldiers gave Jesus wine mixed with bitter gall, but when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it.
Some of the bystanders misunderstood and thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.
But the rest said, “Wait! Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
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!”
The soldiers mocked him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine.