Mark 15:36

Plain English Version

One man got up quickly and got a sponge, and he filled it with sour wine, and he put it on a stick and held it up to Jesus’s mouth, so he could suck a bit of it. And that man said, “All right, just leave him. Let us wait and see if Elijah will come and get him down.”

Cross References

Mark 15:23

Then the soldiers tried to give Jesus some wine to drink. That wine had some medicine called myrrh mixed in it. But Jesus wouldn’t drink it.

Mark 15:35

Some of the people standing around heard Jesus say that. They thought that he called out for Elijah to come to him from heaven.

Mark 15:37

Jesus yelled out again, and then he died.