The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him vinegar,
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
they offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.
And one ran and, filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”
And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then, arraying him in gorgeous apparel, he sent him back to Pilate.