JOHN 19:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth — The posca (sour wine, cheap soldiers' drink) offered on hyssop (hyssos) recalls both Psalm 69:21 and the Passover hyssop of Exodus 12:22, the branch that spread lamb's blood on doorposts. The hyssop becomes instrument of both comfort and fulfillment. The soldiers' action—whether mocking or merciful—provides the condemned relief.
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