There was a jar of wine standing there. With this wine they filled a sponge, put it on the end of a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
Here they gave Him a mixture of wine and gall to drink, but having tasted it He refused to drink it.
One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;
But Jesus uttered another loud cry and then yielded up His spirit.
Then a man ran to fill a sponge with sour wine, and he put it on the end of a cane and placed it to His lips, saying at the same time, »Wait! let us see whether Elijah will come and take him down.«
And the soldiers also made sport of Him, coming and offering Him sour wine and saying,