John 19:29
A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
Note Or A jar of wine vinegar; similarly in verse 30
Note See Psalms 69:21.
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.
Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- was set
- Matthew 27:34, 48; Mark 15:36; Luke 23:36
- hyssop
- This hyssop is termed a reed by Matthew and Mark; and it appears that a species of hyssop, with a reedy stalk, about two feet long, grew about Jerusalem.
- Exodus 12:22; Numbers 19:18; 1 Kings 4:33; Psalm 51:7