Luke 23 The disgusting sour wine on a sponge offered to Him, was NOT from compassion. 2017

Luke 23:35
And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One."

All the people there, even the rulers, were sneering at Him and mocking Him. This too, was prophesied in the Tanakh (Psalm 22:12-13, Isa. 49:7, Isa 53:3).

Luke 23:36
And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

Luke tells us here that offering Him sour wine was a part of the soldiers mocking Him. How was offering Him this sour wine on a sponge on a stick mocking Him? When we see what these sponges were used for, we see the degradation Yeshua was being put through. We are told in Matthews account that the sour wine was offered to Him with a sponge on a stick (Matt. 27:48). The sponges on sticks were used communally as toilet paper in latrines in ancient Rome. ""Here we had 12 to 60 people at once, going to the bathroom sitting next to each other. There were no dividers. There was no toilet paper. And there was one sponge stick for everyone to dip into the water and pass around."