But the rest said, “Wait! Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
They say, “God has abandoned him. Let’s go and get him, for no one will help him now.”
One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.
Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit.