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15 He has sated me with bitterness,
    filled me with wormwood.(A)

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34 (A)they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall.[a] But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:34 Wine…mixed with gall: cf. Mk 15:23 where the drink is “wine drugged with myrrh,” a narcotic. Matthew’s text is probably an inexact allusion to Ps 69:22. That psalm belongs to the class called the individual lament, in which a persecuted just man prays for deliverance in the midst of great suffering and also expresses confidence that his prayer will be heard. That theme of the suffering Just One is frequently applied to the sufferings of Jesus in the passion narratives.

48 (A)Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge; he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink.

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23 They gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it.

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