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The King on a Cross

32 aNow as they came out, bthey found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear His cross.  
33 aAnd when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull,  
34 athey gave Him1 sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.  
35 aThen they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting lots,1 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet:
b“They divided My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.”  
36 aSitting down, they kept watch over Him there.  
37 And they aput up over His head the accusation written against Him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.  
38 aThen two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left.  
39 And athose who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads  
40 and saying, a“You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! bIf You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”  
41 Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the1 scribes and elders, said,  
42 “He asaved others; Himself He cannot save.1 If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe2 Him.  
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Matthew 27:34

They gave him vinegar ... - Mark says that, "they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh." The two evangelists mean the same thing. Vinegar was made of light wine rendered acid, and was the common drink of the Roman soldiers, and this might be called either vinegar or wine in common language. "Myrrh" is a bitter substance produced in Arabia, but is used often to denote anything bitter. The meaning of the name is "bitterness." See the notes at Matthew 2:11. "Gall" is properly a bitter secretion from the liver, but the word is also used to denote anything exceedingly "bitter," as wormwood, etc. The drink, therefore, was vinegar or sour wine, rendered "bitter" by the infusion of wormwood or some other very bitter substance. The effect of this, it is said, was to stupefy the senses. It was often given to those who were crucified, to render them insensible to the pains of death. Our Lord, knowing this, when he bad tasted it refused to drink. He was unwilling to blunt the pains of dying. The "cup" which his "Father" gave him he rather chose to drink. He came to suffer. His sorrows were necessary for the work of the atonement, and he gave himself up to the unmitigated sufferings of the cross. This was presented to him in the early part of his sufferings, or when he was about to be suspended on the cross. "Afterward," when he was on the cross and just before his death, vinegar was offered to him "without the myrrh" - the vinegar which the soldiers usually drank - and of this he drank. See Matthew 27:49, and John 19:28-30. When Matthew and Mark say that he "would not drink," they refer to a different thing and a different time from John, and there is no contradiction.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Matthew 27:34:

Deuteronomy 29:18
Psalms 69:21
Psalms 69:21
Matthew 2:11
Mark 15:23
John 19:16-22
Acts 1:20
Acts 2:30
Romans 15:3

 

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