The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
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The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
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The souldiers also mocked him, and came and offered him vineger,
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- Psalms 69:21 They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Matthew 27:48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
- Matthew 27:34 they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.
- Mark 15:36 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
- Matthew 27:29-30 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
- Mark 15:19-20 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
- Luke 23:11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
- John 19:28-30 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to…
36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
Ver. 36. Offered him vinegar] Instead of wine, which kings drink much of.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But the other answering, rebuked him,.... That is, the…
But the other answering, rebuked him,.... That is, the other malefactor made answer to him, and reproved him for his baseness and wickedness:
saying, dost not thou fear God; or "neither dost thou fear God", any more than these priests, people, and soldiers, that are acting such a barbarous and inhuman part to a man in misery: and wilt thou do the same, and show that thou art an impious wretch, now thou art just going out of the world, and neither fears God, nor regards man, and art without compassion to a fellow sufferer, adding sin to sin,
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seeing thou art in the same condemnation? undergoing the same sort of punishment, though not on the same account, which might be the reason why they suffered on the same day: for the Jews say (a), they never judge (or condemn) two in one day, but one today, and the other tomorrow; but if they are in one transgression,
, "and one death", as an adulterer with an adulteress, they condemn them both in one day; but if the adulterer lies with a priest's daughter, seeing he is to be strangled, and she to be burnt, they do not execute them both in one day.''
(a) Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 14. sect. 10.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 36. Offering him vinegar] See Clarke on Mt…
Verse 36. Offering him vinegar] See Clarke on Mt 27:34. Vinegar or small sour wine, was a common drink of the Roman soldiers; and it is supposed that wherever they were on duty they had a vessel of this liquor standing by. It appears that at least two cups were given to our Lord; one before he was nailed to the cross, viz. of wine mingled with myrrh, and another of vinegar, while he hung on the cross. Some think there were three cups: ONE of wine mixed with myrrh; the SECOND, of vinegar mingled with gall; and the THIRD, of simple vinegar. Allow these three cups, and the different expressions in all the evangelists will be included. See Lightfoot.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 36. Soldiers… offering him vinegar—Pretending to share with him…
36. Soldiers… offering him vinegar—Pretending to share with him their posca, or ordinary stimulating drink.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 36. the soldiers also mocked him] A quaternion of…
36. the soldiers also mocked him] A quaternion of soldiers (Joh_19:23) with a centurion. Similarly Tacitus says of the Christian martyrs who perished in the Neronian persecution, “pereuntibus addita ludibria” (Ann. xv. 44).
offering him vinegar] It was their duty to watch Him (Mat_27:36), for sufferers sometimes lingered alive upon the cross for days. It is hardly to be wondered at if, with such a vile example before them as the derision by the Priests and Elders, these provincial or Roman soldiers —men of the lowest class, and “cruel by their wars, to blood inured”— beguiled the tedious hours by the mockery of the Innocent. By the word “mocked” seems to be meant that they lifted up to His lips the vessels containing their ordinary drink—sour wine (posca, Joh_19:29. Comp. Num_6:3; Rth_2:14)—and then snatched them away. Probably a large earthen jar of posca for the use of these soldiers lay near the foot of the Cross (Psa_69:21; Joh_19:29). All these insults took place during the earlier part of the Crucifixion, and before the awful darkness came on.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (36) Offering him vinegar.—Not even the prayer for their…
(36) Offering him vinegar.—Not even the prayer for their forgiveness had touched the hearts of the soldiers. But still, they knew not what they did, and did but follow, after their nature, in the path in which others led the way. Possibly too, rude as their natures were, there was a touch of rough kindliness mingling in their mockery, as shown in the offer of the vinegar, or sour wine, which they had brought for their own use (see Note on Mat_27:48)—unless, indeed, we suppose the refinement of cruelty which held it before the eyes of the Sufferer, but did not, as afterwards, convey it to His lips.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him,…
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar. Three times in the Crucifixion scene we find a mention of this vinegar, or the sour wine of the country, the common drink of the soldiers and others, being offered to the Sufferer.
(1) Mat_27:34. This was evidently a draught prepared with narcotics and stupefying drugs, no doubt by some of those compassionate women addressed by him on his way to the cross as "daughters of Jerusalem," a common work of mercy at that time, and one apparently permitted by the guards. This, St. Matthew tells us, "he tasted of," no doubt in courteous recognition of the kindly purpose of the act, but he refused to do more than taste of it. He would not dull the sense of pain, or cloud the clearness of his communion with his Father in that last awful hour.
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(2) The second, mentioned here by St. Luke, seems to imply that the soldiers mocked his agony of thirst one of the tortures induced by crucifixion by lifting up to his parched, fevered lips, vessels containing their sour wine, and then snatching them hastily away.
(3) The third (Joh_19:28-30) relates that here the Lord, utterly exhausted, asked for and received this last refreshment, which revived, for a very brief space, his fast failing powers, and gave him strength for his last utterances. The soldiers, perhaps acting under the orders of the compassionate centurion in command, perhaps touched with awe by the brave patience and strange dignity of the dying Lord, did him this last kindly office.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 approaching him
him
Jesus
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approaching him
"coming close to Jesus"
offering him vinegar
"offering Jesus vinegar to drink." Vinegar is a cheap drink that common people drink. The soldiers were mocking Jesus by giving a cheap drink to someone who claims to be a king.
If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself
The soldiers were mocking Jesus. AT: "We do not believe you are the King of the Jews, but if you are, prove us wrong by saving yourself" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
a sign over him
"a placard at the top of Jesus' cross that stated"
This is the King of the Jews
The people who put this sign above Jesus were mocking him. They did not really think he was a king.
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King of the Jews
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:36 Sour wine (cp. Ps 69:21) was a popular…
23:36 Sour wine (cp. Ps 69:21) was a popular drink of the lower classes, especially among soldiers.
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