MATTHEW 27:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.”
They offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. The gall-mixed wine — a narcotic offered to reduce the pain of crucifixion — is tasted and refused by Jesus. The refusal communicates the deliberate choice to experience the full suffering without numbing: the one who will drink the cup of God's judgment will not take the cup that dulls the consciousness.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:34
After the Evangelist had narrated what concerned the mocking of Christ, he proceeds to His crucifixion.
This is to be understood to have been done at the end of all when He was led off to crucifixion after Pilate had delivered Him up to the Jews.
It is to be noted, that when Jesus is scourged and spit upon, He has not on His own garments, but those which He took for our sins; but when He is crucified, and the show of His mockery is completed, then He takes again His former garments, and His own dress, and immediately the elements are shaken, and the creature gives testimony to the Creator.
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