“Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.”
John 19:29 (KJV)
Context Reading
27Then saith he to the disciple,Behold thy mother!And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. 28¶ After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith,I thirst. 29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. 30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,It is finished:and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. 31The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.