KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
John 19:29
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put it around a hyssop stalk, did put it to his mouth;
Surrounding context — John 19
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own [home].
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 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.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
σκεῦοςG4632 · skeuosvesselἔκειτοG2749 · keimaito lay/be appointedὄξουςG3690 · oxosvinegarμεστόν.G3324 · mestosfullσπόγγονG4699 · spongosspongeοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenμεστὸνG3324 · mestosfullτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoὄξουςG3690 · oxosvinegarὑσσώπῳG5301 · hussōposhyssopπεριθέντεςG4060 · peritithēmito put onπροσήνεγκανG4374 · prospherōto bring toαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoστόματι.G4750 · stomamouth
Cross-references
Numbers 19:18And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:Luke 23:36And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,Mark 15:36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.Matthew 27:48And 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.Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.Psalm 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Matthew 27:34They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.1 Kings 4:33And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
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