Matt 27:33-34

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clarkthompson

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Matthew 27:33-34 King James Version (KJV)
33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.


Matthew 27:33-34 Expanded Bible (EXB)


33 They all came to the place called Golgotha, which means [C in Aramaic]the Place of the Skull. 34 •The soldiers [L They; C this could be the soldiers or the women of Jerusalem] gave Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink [C the gall was either a sedative or further mockery, making the wine bitter; Ps. 69:21; Prov. 31:6]. He tasted the wine but refused to drink it.


Expanded Bible (EXB) The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.




These are my thoughts, please share yours.


33 At this place from a far you can see a skull in the side of the hill. There was no better place for His death, it was likely they chose this place because of the skull in the hill side. I believe God designed the hill this way because it would be where Jesus died.


34 This drink was to make it less painful, this would allow the person to live longer on the cross but still cause death. Jesus took it all for us. Thru His pain He bore our sins.
 
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Place of the skull is named for two reasons.

1. As you mentioned it looks like a skull.
2. As well This is the place where David buried Goliath's head.
 
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Here's a write up I'm working on I've did if our interested, the drink was offered a few times IMO.

Jh19:17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
Jh19:18 Here they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
Mk15:25 It was the third hour when they crucified him.
Lk23:35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."
Mt27:34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
Lk23:34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
Jh19:23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
Jh19:24 "Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it." This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, "They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing, So this is what the soldiers did.
Mk15:36 One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
Mt27:36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.
Jh19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Jh19:26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son,"
Jh19:27 and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
Mt27:39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
Mt27:40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
Mk15:23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
Jh19:14 It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. "Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.
Jh19:19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Lk23:36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar
Lk23:37 and said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."
Jh19:21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write `The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews."
Jh19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Jh19:20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
Mt27:48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink.
Mt27:49 The rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."
Mt27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Lk23:45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
Mk15:29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
Mk15:30 come down from the cross and save yourself!"
Mt27:41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
Mt27:42 "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
Mt27:43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, `I am the Son of God.'"
Lk23:39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
Lk23:40 But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence?
Lk23:41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."
Lk23:42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
Lk23:43 Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
Mk15:40 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
Mk15:41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
Mt27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Mk15:35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah."
Jh19:28 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
Jh19:29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips.
Jh19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Lk23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
 
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Metaphorically speaking the skull hill with Christ above the earth/hill on the cross represents Christ foreshadowing of his conquest of death and Hades for good.

Also, Jesus tasting the concoction without actually drinking it, symbolizes that for the last time on earth, he for the last time being tempted, denounces the corrupt, impure and evil spirit of this world and what it has to offer.

Just some thoughts

In Christ, Always
 
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Metaphorically speaking the skull hill with Christ above the earth/hill on the cross represents Christ foreshadowing of his conquest of death and Hades for good.

Also, Jesus tasting the concoction without actually drinking it, symbolizes that for the last time on earth, he for the last time being tempted, denounces the corrupt, impure and evil spirit of this world and what it has to offer.

Just some thoughts

In Christ, Always
Indeed he refused to drink that which was given to him by the unbelievers, but at the 9th hour to those who believed in him he said to them I am thirsty they gave him something to drink and he said it is finished.
 
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Copy that...good comment that completed that symbolic chain..smart...listening the spirit I gather
 
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Copy that...good comment that completed that symbolic chain..smart...listening the spirit I gather
Ahhh thanks,

Yea pretty much. :)
 

unobtrusive

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Indeed he refused to drink that which was given to him by the unbelievers, but at the 9th hour to those who believed in him he said to them I am thirsty they gave him something to drink and he said it is finished.
I have heard that the vinegar mixed with gall is related to leaven. The feast of Unleavened bread begins with Passover. Then, if my memory serves me right, leaven was used in bread the last day of "first fruits" which is "Pentecost" the 50th day, being Jubilee. (Shavuot in Hebrew, being the "feast of weeks") It truly was finished. The following scripture is important.

Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. (Matthew 13:33 KJV)
 

maverich

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Golgatha is actually named for Goliath of Gath, i agree fully on the significance of this placement of the cross.
For it was said you will bruise his head, and he will bruise your heel

take note the Son of David, shed his blood on the very hill where goliath is buried,

david chose five stones, only one to be used on goliath, but he and his mighty men the only other 4 left,
 

OneFaith

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Matthew 27:33-34 King James Version (KJV)
33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.


Matthew 27:33-34 Expanded Bible (EXB)


33 They all came to the place called Golgotha, which means [C in Aramaic]the Place of the Skull. 34 •The soldiers [L They; C this could be the soldiers or the women of Jerusalem] gave Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink [C the gall was either a sedative or further mockery, making the wine bitter; Ps. 69:21; Prov. 31:6]. He tasted the wine but refused to drink it.


Expanded Bible (EXB) The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.




These are my thoughts, please share yours.


33 At this place from a far you can see a skull in the side of the hill. There was no better place for His death, it was likely they chose this place because of the skull in the hill side. I believe God designed the hill this way because it would be where Jesus died.


34 This drink was to make it less painful, this would allow the person to live longer on the cross but still cause death. Jesus took it all for us. Thru His pain He bore our sins.

My thoughts are that it was called the place of the skull because many people were crucified there, and I don't think they buried them, but that there were skeletons all over it.

My thoughts are also that nothing changed the timing of Jesus' death. Because He said He had the power to lay down His life and to pick it back up again. No one killed Jesus. Matter of fact, the soldiers were surprised that He was dead already, so they stuck a spear in His side to make sure of it.
 

Magenta

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Many believe Golgotha, part of the Temple Mount, to be the same mountain where Abraham took his son to be sacrificed, but God instead provided the sacrificial ram, in a foreshadowing of Christ.
 

posthuman

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we know David took Goliath's head to Jerusalem ((1 Samuel 17:54)) and that it was a common practice to display a slain enemy's head outside a city's walls.

also in type, Goliath is antichrist, and David a type of Christ. the cross, where the power of sin was destroyed, embodies a great symbolism fulfilling the initial prophecy of redemption in Genesis 3, crushing the head of the serpent who strikes at the heel of mankind, hobbling our walk.

i don't believe the place of crucifixion - & neither the name of the hill - is accidental at all.

the entrance of sin into the world was accompanied with the taking of fruit into the body, and the Christ, the Spotless Lamb of God, who knows no sin, refused fruit while He took our place. what was offered to Him was not for nourishment, not for healing, not for strength - and it is not as though He had need of any of these things. His refusal is counterpoint in type to Eve's taking from the tree; where mankind fails, the Son of Man prevails.
 

notmyown

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we, too, must be crucified 'in the place of the skull', and have our minds renewed.

how 'bout that?