Good morning. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to  fulfill the scripture, said, I am thirsty. A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. It does not mean that it was wine that had soured, but was the cheap wine that was given to the Roman soldiers to drink. In other words it was not sweet wine. In Psalm 69 it says that for My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink. Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said it is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His Spirit. Jesus was in complete control of His life, and He was in complete control of His death. He decided when He was going to die. Of all of the suffering that Jesus did at the end, John did not elaborate. He stated things simply, even though they were still vivid in his mind. Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked that their legs might be broken, and that they (the three on the crosses) might be taken away. Normally they would not have died for a long time - until after the Sabbath had begun. Then they could not have taken them down because they would’ve been doing work on the Sabbath. It would’ve also been very distasteful on the Sabbath to have them still hanging there as the Jews went to the temple to worship. Father thank You that everything that Jesus needed to do was accomplished exactly when and way You wanted it to happen. Go with the reader and his/her family. Meet their every need.

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