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Matthew 27:34
they gave Him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.
they gave Him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.
Verse 34. _THEY GAVE HIM VINEGAR - MINGLED WITH GALL_] Perhaps χολη, commonly translated _gall_, signifies no more than _bitters_ of any kind. It was a common custom to administer a stupefying potion...
THEY GAVE HIM VINEGAR ... - Mark says that, “they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh.” The two evangelists mean the same thing. Vinegar was made of light wine rendered acid, and was the common...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE CRUCIFIXION (Mark 15:21 *, Luke 23:26). Mt. still follows Mk. clearly, the chief alterations being (_a)_ gall (Matthew 27:34) for myrrh (this is due to...
As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man, Simon by name, and they impressed him into their service, to bear Jesus' Cross. When they had come to the place which is called Golgotha (which means...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
THEY GAVE HIM... DRINK. Note the five occasions on which this was done; and observe the accuracy of what is said, instead of creating "discrepancies": 1. On the way to Golgotha (Mark 15:23. were offe...
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30. St Mark's account differs little from St Matthew's. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the rob...
_vinegar … mingled with gall_ "Wine mingled with myrrh" (Mark). _Vinegar_= "sour wine" (_vinaigre_), or _posca_, such as was ordinarily drunk by the Roman soldiers. The potion was a stupefying draught...
ΟἾΝΟΝ for ὄξος, with the more ancient MSS. A and many uncials have the reading of the _textus receptus_. 34. ΟἾΝΟΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. ‘Wine mingled with myrrh’ (Mark). This was the ‘sour wine,’ or _posca_, ordina...
THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30 St Mark’s account differs little from St Matthew’s. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the robbe...
VER 31. AND AFTER THAT THEY HAD MOCKED HIM, THEY TOOK THE ROBE OFF FROM HIM, AND PUT HIS OWN RAIMENT ON HIM, AND LED HIM AWAY TO CRUCIFY HIM. 32. AND AS THEY CAME OUT, THEY FOUND A MAN OF CYRENE, SIMO...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΈΔΩΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act._, cm. ct. 10. ΠΙΕΝΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΊΝΩ (G4095) пить, ΧΟΛΉ (G5521) нечто горькое, желчь (EDNT). ΜΕΜΝΓΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΜΕΊΓΝΥΜΙ (G3396) смешивать. Приговоренн...
THEY GAVE HIM VINEGAR TO DRINK MINGLED WITH GALL— It was usual to give criminals, before they suffered, a stupifying potion to render them insensible of the ignominy and pain of their punishment; but...
ON THE WAY TO GOLGOTHA TEXT: 27:32-34 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to go _with them,_ that he might bear his cross. 33 And when they were c...
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drin...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
VINEGAR (RV 'wine') .. MINGLED WITH GALL] Mk 'wine mingled with myrrh': see Psalms 69:21. Pious women of Jerusalem were ac customed to offer to condemned criminals a draught of wine and myrrh just bef...
HE IS LED TO THE CROSS (Mark 15:20; Luke 23:26; John 19:16). The cross was regarded as the most horrible and most degrading form of punishment, fit only for slaves. 'It is an outrage for a Roman citiz...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
VINEGAR TO DRINK MINGLED WITH GALL. — In Mark 15:23, “wine mingled with myrrh.” The animal secretion known as “gall” is clearly out of the question, and the meaning of the word is determined by its us...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
οἶνον μετὰ χολῆς μ., wine mingled with gall. Mk. has ἐσμυρνισμένον οἶν., wine drugged with myrrh, a drink given by a merciful custom before execution to deaden the sense of pain. The wine would be the...
_Crucifixion_ (Mark 15:21-27; Luke 23:26; Luke 23:35-38). This part of the story begins with the closing words of Matthew 27:31 : “they led
“WHERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM” Matthew 27:32-44 He will not drink what would dull His keen sense of the momentous issues of the Cross. Those taunts were true. None who save themselves can save others. Th...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
(7) They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink. (7) Christ found no comfort anywhere, that in him we might be filled with comfort....
Wine... mingled with gall. [4] The Protestants from the ordinary Greek copies, translate vinegar; but the other Greek copies have wine, which St. Jerome and St. Hilary follow. And in St. Mark all copi...
CHAPTER 27. JESUS LED TO CALVARY Matthew 27:31-34; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-33; John 19:16-17. “ And the
"And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. (33) And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, ...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_CHRIST REFUSING HELP_ ‘They gave Him vinegar to drink … and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.’ Matthew 27:34 Why not? The Cross was to be endured with full consciousness. I. ENDURAN...
34._And they gave him vinegar. _Although the Evangelists are not so exact in placing each matter in its due order, as to enable us to fix the precise moment at which the events occurred; yet I look up...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
THEY GAVE HIM VINEGAR TO DRINK,.... It was a custom with the Jews o when "a man went out to be executed, to give him to drink a grain of frankincense in a cup of wine, that his understanding might be...
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted _thereof_, he would not drink. Ver. 34. _They gave him vinegar, &c._] Cold comfort to a dying man; but they did it in derision...
_And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha_ A Syriac word which signifies a _scull_, or _head._ In Latin it is called _Calvary._ The place was so named, either because malefactors used to b...
VINEGAR-MINGLED WITH GALL; Mark names "wine mingled with myrrh," an intensely bitter substance. Though it may have been intended as a stupefying draught, it still belonged to the process of a bloody,...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
31-34 Christ was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, as a Sacrifice to the altar. Even the mercies of the wicked are really cruel. Taking the cross from him, they compelled one Simon to bear it. Make us...
Ver. 32-34. Mark saith, MARK 15:21, _And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And they bring him unto the p...
Tertullian De Corona ferocity involved in the cruel things which then disfigured and lacerated the temples of the Lord, that you may now be crowned with laurel, and myrtle, and olive, and any famous b...
Matthew 27:34 gave G1325 (G5656) Him G846 wine G3690 mingled G3396 (G5772) with G3326 gall G5521 drink...
‘They gave him wine to drink mingled with gall, and when he had tasted it, he would not drink.' The soldiers then gave him ‘wine mingled with gall'. If meant literally this might mean wine which had b...
JESUS IS PUT TO DEATH AS THE KING OF THE JEWS (27:32-37). That Matthew saw the thought of the crucifixion of his Master as hard to bear comes out especially in these few short verses. There is no emph...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
Matthew 27:34. WINE, according to the best authorities; but the sour wine used might be called ‘vinegar.' See Luke 23:36, where the ‘vinegar' offered Him by the soldiers must have been their ordinary...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
WINE MINGLED WITH GALL (οινον μετα χολης μεμιγμενον). Late MSS. readVINEGAR (οξος) instead of wine and Mark (Mark 15:23) has myrrh instead of gall. The myrrh gave the sour wine a better flavour an...
Matthew 27:26 _(with Mark 15:15)_ Christ on the Cross. Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no won...
Matthew 27:32. _And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross._ Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compell...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
Our Lord was brought before the Roman governor Pilate. He was anxious to let Jesus go; but he was a weak-minded man, easily swayed by the noisy cry of the people, prompted by the chief priests and eld...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
Matthew 27:33. _And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
WINE TO DRINK, MIXED WITH GALL. Mark says "myrrh," but perhaps both words refer to the same thing. This sour wine mixed with gall/myrrh was a drug to kill pain. ["Vinegar" in ancient times, was a sour...
_And they crucified Him, and parted His garments, casting lots._ THE WATCH BY THE CROSS The thought of those who with tender heart watch by the cross of Jesus. I. The first thought concerns the vis...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:34 This was one more mockery. The WINE they offered was MIXED WITH GALL, a bitter herb that could even be poisonous....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:27 As he tells of the crucifixion, Matthew focuses on the fulfillment of OT prophecies about the suffering servant (Isaiah 42:1;...
Jesus is led away to be crucified Matthew 27:32-44; Mark 15:21-32; Luke 23:26-43; John 19:17-22;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:27. THE COMMON HALL.—Literally, the _Prætorium_, a word which, applied originally to the tent of the prætor, or general, and so to the headquarters of the camp, had come t...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
John 19:28; Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:23; Psalms 69:21...
Wine [ο ι ν ο ν]. The older texts read oxov, vinegar. The compound of wine and gall was intended as a stupefying draught....
They gave him vinegar mingled with gall — Out of derision: which, however nauseous, he received and tasted of. St. Mark mentions also a different mixture which was given him, Wine mingled with myrrh:...