MATTHEW 27:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 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.
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