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.
Ver. 29. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar] Cold comfort: they used to give others wine to comfort them, according to Proverbs 31:6, and mingled myrrh with the wine (granum thuris in calice vini), that might attenuate their blood, and so help to despatch them; as also to cause a giddiness in them, that they might be the less sensible of their pain. But they dealt much worse with our Saviour, mingling for him, in mockery, vinegar and gall, to add to his other misery. This he drank, that we might drink of the heavenly nepenthes, that torrent of pleasure, Psalms 16:11 .