Matthew 27:48 Meaning and Explanation
“And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.”
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What Does Matthew 27:48 Mean?
At once one of them runs, soaks a sponge in sour wine, fixes it on a reed, and lifts it to Jesus' lips to give Him drink. It is a small gesture amid the cruelty, fulfilling the psalm's word about the sufferer given vinegar.
A sponge of vinegar is raised to the parched lips of the Savior, who thirsts as He dies. The detail again fulfills the Scripture that foretold the suffering of the righteous one. Whether kindness or further mockery, the act answers the prophetic picture exactly. The One who offers living water to the world endures thirst upon the cross, drinking the bitter cup so that others might never thirst again.
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What does Matthew 27:48 mean?
One bystander runs to give Jesus a sponge soaked in sour wine.