Luke 23:36

The Darby Translation

And the soldiers also made game of him, coming up offering him vinegar,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The soldiers also mocked him. They came offering him sour wine

King James Version (1611)
And the souldiers also mocked him, comming to him, and offering him vineger,

King James Version
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

English Standard Version
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

New American Standard Bible
The soldiers also ridiculed Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

New Century Version
The soldiers also made fun of him, coming to Jesus and offering him some vinegar.

Amplified Bible
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him and [cruelly] offering Him sour wine,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

Berean Standard Bible
The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

Contemporary English Version
The soldiers made fun of Jesus and brought him some wine.

Complete Jewish Bible
The soldiers too ridiculed him; they came up, offered him vinegar

Easy-to-Read Version
Even the soldiers laughed at Jesus and made fun of him. They came and offered him some sour wine.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The souldiers also mocked him, and came and offered him vineger,

George Lamsa Translation
And the soldiers ridiculed him, as they came near him and offered him vinegar,

Good News Translation
The soldiers also made fun of him: they came up to him and offered him cheap wine,

Lexham English Bible
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

Literal Translation
And coming near, the soldiers also mocked Him and were offering vinegar to Him,

American Standard Version
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,

Bible in Basic English
And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine,

Hebrew Names Version
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

International Standard Version
The soldiers also made fun of him, coming up and offering him sour wine

Etheridge Translation
And the soldiers also, deriding him, approaching him, and offering to him vinegar,

Murdock Translation
And the soldiers like wise mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The souldiours also mocked him, and came and offred him vineger,

English Revised Version
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,

World English Bible
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

Weymouth's New Testament
And the soldiers also made sport of Him, coming and offering Him sour wine and saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the knyytis neiyeden, and scorneden hym, and profreden vynegre to hym,

Update Bible Version
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

New English Translation
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

New King James Version
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming and offering Him sour wine,

New Living Translation
The soldiers mocked him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine.

New Life Bible
The soldiers made fun of Him also. They put sour wine before Him.

New Revised Standard
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover the soldiers also mocked him, - coming near, offering, vinegar, unto him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Revised Standard Version
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him vinegar,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The soudiers also mocked him and came and gave him veneger

Young's Literal Translation
And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The soudyers also mocked him, wete vnto him, & brought him vyneger,

Mace New Testament (1729)
the soldiers too, who came to bring him vinegar, insulted him,

THE MESSAGE
The soldiers also came up and poked fun at him, making a game of it. They toasted him with sour wine: "So you're King of the Jews! Save yourself!"

Simplified Cowboy Version
The soldiers also made fun of him by offering him some sour wine like they were his servants and he was a king.

Contextual Overview

³² Now two others also, malefactors, were led with him to be put to death. ³³ And when they came to the place which is called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left. ³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots. ³⁵ And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also [with them] sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God. ³⁶ And the soldiers also made game of him, coming up offering him vinegar, ³⁷ and saying, If *thou* be the king of the Jews, save thyself. ³⁸ And there was also an inscription [written] over him in Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew letters: This is the King of the Jews. ³⁹ Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment? ⁴¹ and *we* indeed justly, for we receive the just recompense of what we have done; but this [man] has done nothing amiss.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 23:11, Psalms 69:21, Matthew 27:29, Matthew 27:30, Matthew 27:34, Matthew 27:48, Mark 15:19, Mark 15:20, Mark 15:36, John 19:28-30

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 36:16 - mocked Job 16:10 - gaped Jeremiah 20:7 - I am Mark 15:18 - Hail Mark 15:23 - they John 19:29 - was set Acts 17:32 - some Hebrews 11:36 - mockings

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the soldiers also mocked him,.... The Roman soldiers, to whom the execution was committed, who crucified him, and parted his garments, and stood at his cross watching; these joined in the insult, which is not to be wondered at. Coming to him and offering him vinegar; which was what was a part of their allowance, and was their drink; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 27:41-44.

Luke 23:38

In letters of Greek ... - See the notes at Matthew 27:37.

Luke 23:39

One of the malefactors - Matthew Matthew 27:44 says “the thieves - cast the same in his teeth.” See the apparent contradiction in these statements reconciled in the notes at that place.

If thou be Christ - If thou art the Messiah; if thou art what thou dost pretend to be. This is a taunt or reproach of the same kind as that of the priests in Luke 23:35.

Save thyself and us - Save our lives. Deliver us from the cross. This man did not seek for salvation truly; he asked not to be delivered from his sins; if he had, Jesus would also have heard him. Men often, in sickness and affliction, call upon God. They are earnest in prayer. They ask of God to save them, but it is only to save them from “temporal” death. It is not to be saved from their sins, and the consequence is, that when God “does” raise them up, they forget their promises, and live as they did before, as this robber “would” have done if Jesus had heard his prayer and delivered him from the cross.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Offering him vinegar — Matthew 27:34; Matthew 27:34. Vinegar or small sour wine, was a common drink of the Roman soldiers; and it is supposed that wherever they were on duty they had a vessel of this liquor standing by. It appears that at least two cups were given to our Lord; one before he was nailed to the cross, viz. of wine mingled with myrrh, and another of vinegar, while he hung on the cross. Some think there were three cups: ONE of wine mixed with myrrh; the SECOND, of vinegar mingled with gall; and the THIRD, of simple vinegar. Allow these three cups, and the different expressions in all the evangelists will be included. See Lightfoot.