After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said,
I thirst.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
They were not softened at all by what they saw, but were the more enraged, and gave Him the cup to drink, as they did to criminals, i.e. with a hyssop.
He did not bow His head because He gave up the ghost, but He gave up the ghost because at that moment He bowed His head. Whereby the Evangelist intimates that He was Lord of all.
