Luke 23:36
New International Version
The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar

New Living Translation
The soldiers mocked him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine.

English Standard Version
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

Berean Standard Bible
The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

Berean Literal Bible
And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming near, offering Him sour wine,

King James Bible
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

New King James Version
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming and offering Him sour wine,

New American Standard Bible
The soldiers also ridiculed Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

NASB 1995
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

NASB 1977
And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

Amplified Bible
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him and [cruelly] offering Him sour wine,

Christian Standard Bible
The soldiers also mocked him. They came offering him sour wine

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The soldiers also mocked Him. They came offering Him sour wine

American Standard Version
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the soldiers were also scoffing at him as they came near to him and they were offering him vinegar.

Contemporary English Version
The soldiers made fun of Jesus and brought him some wine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

English Revised Version
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The soldiers also made fun of him. They would go up to him, offer him some vinegar,

Good News Translation
The soldiers also made fun of him: they came up to him and offered him cheap wine,

International Standard Version
The soldiers also made fun of Jesus by coming up and offering him sour wine,

Literal Standard Version
And the soldiers were also mocking Him, coming near and offering vinegar to Him,

Majority Standard Bible
The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

New American Bible
Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine

NET Bible
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

New Revised Standard Version
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

New Heart English Bible
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

Weymouth New Testament
And the soldiers also made sport of Him, coming and offering Him sour wine and saying,

World English Bible
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Young's Literal Translation
And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,

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Context
The Crucifixion
35The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.” 36 The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine. 37“If You are the King of the Jews,” they said, “save Yourself!”…

Cross References
Psalm 69:21
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

Matthew 27:48
One of them quickly ran and brought a sponge. He filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, and held it up for Jesus to drink.

John 19:29
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.


Treasury of Scripture

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

Luke 23:11
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.

Psalm 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Matthew 27:29,30,34,48
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! …

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Luke 23
1. Jesus is accused before Pilate, and sent to Herod.
8. Herod mocks him.
12. Herod and Pilate become friends.
13. Barabbas is desired of the people,
24. and is released by Pilate, and Jesus is given to be crucified.
26. He tells the women, that lament him, the destruction of Jerusalem;
34. prays for his enemies.
39. Two criminals are crucified with him.
46. His death.
50. His burial.














(36) Offering him vinegar.--Not even the prayer for their forgiveness had touched the hearts of the soldiers. But still, they knew not what they did, and did but follow, after their nature, in the path in which others led the way. Possibly too, rude as their natures were, there was a touch of rough kindliness mingling in their mockery, as shown in the offer of the vinegar, or sour wine, which they had brought for their own use (see Note on Matthew 27:48)--unless, indeed, we suppose the refinement of cruelty which held it before the eyes of the Sufferer, but did not, as afterwards, convey it to His lips.

Verse 36. - And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar. Three times in the Crucifixion scene we find a mention of this vinegar, or the sour wine of the country, the common drink of the soldiers and others, being offered to the Sufferer.

(1) Matthew 27:34. This was evidently a draught prepared with narcotics and stupefying drugs, no doubt by some of those compassionate women addressed by him on his way to the cross as "daughters of Jerusalem," a common work of mercy at that time, and one apparently permitted by the guards. This, St. Matthew tells us, "he tasted of," no doubt in courteous recognition of the kindly purpose of the act, but he refused to do more than taste of it. He would not dull the sense of pain, or cloud the clearness of his communion with his Father in that last awful hour.

(2) The second, mentioned here by St. Luke, seems to imply that the soldiers mocked his agony of thirst - one of the tortures induced by crucifixion - by lifting up to his parched, fevered lips, vessels containing their sour wine, and then snatching them hastily away.

(3) The third (John 19:28-30) relates that here the Lord, utterly exhausted, asked for and received this last refreshment, which revived, for a very brief space, his fast failing powers, and gave him strength for his last utterances. The soldiers, perhaps acting under the orders of the compassionate centurion in command, perhaps touched with awe by the brave patience and strange dignity of the dying Lord, did him this last kindly office.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
The
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

soldiers
στρατιῶται (stratiōtai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4757: A soldier. From a presumed derivative of the same as stratia; a camper-out, i.e. A warrior.

also
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

mocked
Ἐνέπαιξαν (Enepaixan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1702: To mock, ridicule. From en and paizo; to jeer at, i.e. Deride.

Him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[and] came up
προσερχόμενοι (proserchomenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4334: From pros and erchomai; to approach, i.e. come near, visit, or worship, assent to.

to offer
προσφέροντες (prospherontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4374: From pros and phero; to bear towards, i.e. Lead to, tender, treat.

Him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

sour wine.
ὄξος (oxos)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3690: Vinegar, sour wine mixed with water, a common drink of Roman soldiers. From oxus; vinegar, i.e. Sour wine.


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