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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.

KJV

ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ πεῖν οἶνον μετὰ χολῆς μεμιγμένον· καὶ γευσάμενος οὐκ ἠθέλησεν πεῖν.

Greek NT

Et dederunt ei vinum bibere cum felle mistum. Et cum gustasset, noluit bibere.

Vulgate

they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted it, he would not drink.

ASV

And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he had tasted, he would not drink.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γεύομαι
geuomai
verb · 15×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μίγνυμι
mignumi
verb · 4×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
οἶνος
oinos
noun · 34×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πίνω
pino
verb · 73×
χολή
chole
noun · 2×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Ps 69:21 · exact_quote
    "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
    Psalm 69: they gave me vinegar to drink — at the crucifixion

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: οἶνον | WH/Treg/NIV: οἶνον | RP: ὄξος
  • οἶνονSBLGNT
  • οἶνονWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὄξοςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἠθέλησεν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἠθέλησεν | RP: ἤθελεν
  • ἠθέλησενSBLGNT
  • ἠθέλησενWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἤθελενRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 19.—Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the Obstinate Unbelief of the Jews is Declared. But when the Jews will not in the least yield to the testimonies of this prophecy, which are so manifest, and are also brought by events to so clear and certain a completion, certainly that is fulfilled in them which is written in that psalm which here follows. For when the things which pert…

Cross-references

  • Jer 8:14 — Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, becau
  • John 19:28 — After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
  • 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.
  • Luke 23:36 — And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
  • Mark 15:23 — And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
  • Mark 15:23 — And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
  • Matt 27:48 — And 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.
  • Matt 27:48 — And 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.
  • Ps 69:21 — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Ps 69:21 — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.