JOHN 19:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.”
After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), 'I am thirsty.' — Jesus' awareness that "all was now finished" (tetelestai panta, all has been completed) reveals that his passion fulfills its divinely appointed course. The statement "I am thirsty" (dipsa), combined with the parenthetical reference to Scripture's fulfillment, invokes Psalm 69:21 ("for my thirst they gave me vinegar"). Even the torment of thirst serves Scripture's design.
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