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They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
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A Prophecy of the Cross
Commentators overwhelmingly identify this verse as a direct prophecy of Jesus's crucifixion, pointing to the accounts in Matthew 27 and John 19 where Jesus was offered vinegar. Scholars like John Gill and Matthew Henry argue that the precise fulfillment of this detail is powerful evidence that Jesus is the Messiah and that Scripture is the inspired word of God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They gave me also - My enemies; all persons around me. No one would show me even so much kindness as to give me food when I was hungry, or d…
19th Century
Anglican
Gall. —Heb., rôsh, i.e., head. (Compare poppy heads. See Deuteronomy 32:32). In Hosea 10:4 it is translated …
Baptist
And I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gal…
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16th Century
Protestant
And they put gall into my meat. Here he again repeats that his enemies carry their cruelty towards him to the full extent of their power. …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They gave me also gall for my meat Either some bitter herb mentioned with wormwood and hemlock, (Deuteronomy 29:18…
Whatever deep waters of affliction or temptation we sink into, whatever floods of trouble or ungodly men seem ready to overwhelm us, let us perseve…
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