Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.
Verse Takeaways
1
A Conscious Sacrifice
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that the "wine mingled with gall" was a narcotic drink, a customary mercy offered to dull the intense pain of crucifixion. Jesus's refusal was not because of the bitter taste, but because He was determined to endure the full, unmitigated suffering of the cross. He consciously chose to face the agony with clear senses, ensuring His sacrifice for sin was complete and fully experienced.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Matthew
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
16
18th Century
Presbyterian
They gave Him vinegar, etc. Mark says that "they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh." The two evangelists mean the same th…
Wine mingled with gall (οινον μετα χολης μεμιγμενον). Late MSS. read
vinegar (οξος) instead of wine and Ma…
19th Century
Anglican
Vinegar to drink mixed with gall—In Mark 15:23, this is described as “wine mingled with myrrh.” The animal secretion know…
Your support helps us maintain this resource for everyone
Baptist
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and…
On “Golgotha,” see comment on Mk 15:22. Mark says they offered Jesus wine mingled with myrrh, and he refused it; Matthew, that they offered him win…
16th Century
Protestant
And they gave Him vinegar. Although the Evangelists are not so precise in placing each matter in its proper order as to enable us to deter…
Get curated content & updates
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They gave him vinegar to drink It was a custom with the Jews F15 when a man went out to be executed, to give h…
Christ was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, as a Sacrifice to the altar. Even the mercies of the wicked are really cruel. Taking the cross from him,…
13th Century
Catholic
After relating His condemnation, His Passion and death are treated here; and secondly, His burial is treated, where it is said, And whe…