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ULTA container full of sour wine was placed there, so having put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop, they lifted it up to his mouth.
USTSomeone had put a jar containing cheap wine there and Jesus was thirsty. So the soldiers took a reed from a hyssop plant and put a sponge on it. Then they dipped the sponge in the cheap wine and held it up to Jesus’ mouth.
BSBA jar of sour wine [fn] was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.[fn]
19:29Or A jar of wine vinegar; similarly in verse 30
BLBA vessel full of sour wine had been set there. So having put on a stalk of hyssop a sponge filled with sour wine, they brought it to the mouth.
AICNTA vessel full of sour wine was lying there; so they {put a sponge full of the sour wine on hyssop}[fn] and brought it to his mouth.
19:29,put a sponge full of the sour wine on hyssop: Some manuscripts read “and the filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on hyssop.”
OEBThere was a bowl standing there full of common wine; so they put a sponge soaked in the wine on the end of a hyssop-stalk, and held it up to his mouth.
WEBBENow a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
NETA jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and lifted it to his mouth.
LSVa vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put [it] around a hyssop stalk, they put [it] to His mouth;
FBVA jar of wine vinegar was standing there, so they soaked a sponge in the vinegar, put it on a hyssop stick, and held it to his lips.[fn]
TCNTA jar full of sour wine was there, so they [fn]filled a sponge with sour wine, put it around a hyssop branch, and brought it up to his mouth.
19:29filled a sponge with sour wine, put it around a hyssop branch, ¦ put a sponge full of sour wine around a hyssop branch CT
T4TThere was a jar of sour wine there. So someone took a stalk of a plant called hyssop and fastened a sponge to it. Then he dipped the sponge into the wine and lifted it up to Jesus’ lips.
LEBA jar full of sour wine was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a branch of hyssop and[fn] brought it[fn] to his mouth.
19:29*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“put”) has been translated as a finite verb
19:29*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
BBENow there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of it on a stick and put it to his mouth.
WymthThere was a jar of wine standing there. With this wine they filled a sponge, put it on the end of a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
ASVThere was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.
DRANow there was a vessel set there full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar and hyssop, put it to his mouth.
YLTa vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put [it] around a hyssop stalk, did put [it] to his mouth;
DrbyThere was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth.
RVThere was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.
WbstrNow 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.
KJB-1769Now 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.
KJB-1611Now there was set a vessell, full of vineger: And they filled a spunge with vineger, and put it vpon hyssope, and put it to his mouth. (Now there was set a vessel, full of vineger: And they filled a spunge with vineger, and put it upon hyssope, and put it to his mouth.)
BshpsSo there stoode a vessell by, full of vineger: Therefore they fylled a sponge with vineger, and put it vpon Isope, & put it to his mouth. (So there stood a vessel by, full of vineger: Therefore they filled a sponge with vineger, and put it upon Isope, and put it to his mouth.)
GnvaAnd there was set a vessell full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it about an Hyssope stalke, and put it to his mouth. (And there was set a vessel full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it about an Hyssop stalke, and put it to his mouth. )
CvdlThere stode a vessell full of vyneger. They fylled a sponge with vyneger and wonde it aboute with ysope, and helde it to his mouth. (There stood a vessel full of vyneger. They filled a sponge with vyneger and wonde it about with ysope, and held it to his mouth.)
TNTTher stode a vessell full of veneger by. And they filled a sponge with veneger and wounde it about with ysope and put it to his mouth. (Ther stood a vessel full of veneger by. And they filled a sponge with veneger and wounde it about with ysope and put it to his mouth. )
WyclAnd a vessel was set ful of vynegre. And thei `leiden in isope aboute the spounge ful of vynegre, and putten to his mouth. (And a vessel was set full of vynegre. And they `leiden in isope about the spounge full of vynegre, and putten to his mouth.)
LuthDa stund ein Gefäß voll Essigs. Sie aber fülleten einen Schwamm mit Essig und legten ihn um einen Ysop und hielten es ihm dar zum Munde. (So stood a Gefäß voll Essigs. They/She but fülleten a Schwamm with Essig and legten him/it around/by/for a Ysop and hielten it him dar for_the Munde.)
ClVgVas ergo erat positum aceto plenum. Illi autem spongiam plenam aceto, hyssopo circumponentes, obtulerunt ori ejus. (Vas therefore was positum aceto plenum. Illi however spongiam plenam aceto, hyssopo circumponentes, obthey_took ori his. )
19:29 The hyssop bush had been used in Egypt to brush lamb’s blood on the doorposts and lintels during the first Passover (Exod 12:22). Jesus is God’s Passover lamb (John 1:29, 36), and his blood likewise saves.
At the beginning of John’s Gospel, John the Baptist introduced Jesus by calling him the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29, 36). This phrase might be a reference to the sacrificial lamb that was killed daily in the Temple (Exod 29:38-46) or to the sacrificial lamb of Isaiah 53:7 (cp. Acts 8:32-35; Rev 5:5-14). Both of these sacrifices spoke of rescue and forgiveness from sin.
However, this was not all that John had in mind. John presented Jesus as the Passover lamb whose death marks the central event of the Passover season (see Exod 12:43-47; Luke 22:7; 1 Cor 5:7). In the first century, Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem each spring to celebrate the Passover and to reread the story of the Exodus (see Exod 12–15). When Israel was being rescued from Egypt, the blood of a lamb was sprinkled on the doorposts of each Jewish home in Egypt, an act which saved those inside from death (Exod 12). Jews who came to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover needed to supply a perfect young lamb for sacrifice (the animal could not be diseased or have broken bones).
Jesus used his final Passover meal to show that his sacrificial death would give new meaning to the festival (Mark 14:17-25). At his crucifixion, Jesus’ legs were not broken, as was often done to fulfill a Passover rule (John 19:31-33; see Exod 12:46). Blood ran freely from his wound (John 19:34), showing that his life was being exchanged for others. Just as a lamb died to save the lives of Jewish families at the Passover in Egypt, so too, the death of the Son of God on the cross serves to bring salvation to the world.
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [Someone had placed there a container full of sour wine]
Here, sour wine refers to the inexpensive wine that common people in Jesus’ culture would usually drink to quench thirst. Therefore, the person who gave Jesus this sour wine was acting kindly and responding to what he had said in the previous verse. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: [of common wine … of that wine]
/a/_sponge therefore full ˱of˲_the wine_vinegar ˱around˲_/a/_hyssop_‹stalk› /having/_put_around
John implies that someone dipped the sponge into the container full of sour wine so that the sponge would be full of the sour wine. If it would be more natural in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: [so having dipped a sponge in the container so that it was full of sour wine, they put it on a hyssop]
A sponge is a small object that can soak up and hold liquid that comes out of it when the sponge is squeezed. If your readers would not be familiar with this thing, you could use the name of something your readers would use for soaking up liquid, or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: [something to soak up liquid]
Here, hyssop refers to the stalk from a plant that grows in Israel. Matthew and Mark called this stalk a “reed” in Matthew 27:48 and Mark 15:36. If your readers would not be familiar with this plant, you could use the name of a plant in your area that has stalks or reeds, or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: [a reed of a plant called hyssop]
On the Thursday before he was crucified, Jesus had arranged to share the Passover meal with his disciples in an upper room, traditionally thought to be located in the Essene Quarter of Jerusalem. After they finished the meal, they went to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus often met with his disciples. There Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ own disciples, betrayed him to soldiers sent from the High Priest, and they took Jesus to the High Priest’s residence. In the morning the leading priests and teachers of the law put Jesus on trial and found him guilty of blasphemy. The council sent Jesus to stand trial for treason before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who resided at the Praetorium while in Jerusalem. The Praetorium was likely located at the former residence of Herod the Great, who had died over 30 years earlier. When Pilate learned that Jesus was from Galilee, he sent him to Herod Antipas, who had jurisdiction over Galilee. But when Jesus gave no answer to Herod’s many questions, Herod and his soldiers sent him back to Pilate, who conceded to the people’s demands that Jesus be crucified. Jesus was forced to carry his cross out of the city gate to Golgotha, meaning Skull Hill, referring to what may have been a small unquarried hill in the middle of an old quarry just outside the gate. After Jesus was unable to carry his cross any further, a man named Simon from Cyrene was forced to carry it for him. There at Golgotha they crucified Jesus. After Jesus died, his body was hurriedly taken down before nightfall and placed in a newly cut, rock tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Jewish high council. This tomb was likely located at the perimeter of the old quarry.
