Thematic Bible: Offered to Christ while on the cross
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they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.
A jar of sour wine was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he wouldn't accept it.
So one of the men ran off at once, took a sponge, and soaked it in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink.