The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

Math. 27.34, 35, 36. They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with Gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified him and parted his Garments, casting Lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, They parted my garment among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down, they watched him there.

MAth. 27.34, 35, 36. They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with Gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified him and parted his Garments, casting Lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, They parted my garment among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down, they watched him there.

When they had made all things ready, they laid hands on his blessed Person, and the first thing they did was, they gave him the cup of death to drink, which he tasted, saith Matthew, but refused to drink, viz. a draught of it, saith Mark. A taste of that cup was enough. That he should taste death, this was a significant act, which respects all that followed. This is the Preface of death, put for the whole. This is that Cup of which Jesus Christ spake before, Mat. 20.22, 23. Can ye drink of the Cup that I shall drink? namely this cup of death, and be baptized with the baptism that I shall be baptized with? viz. with mine own blood running down my face from the wounds which my thorny crowns caused. This is the cup that John speaketh of, Joh. 18.11. The Cup which my Father giveth me to drink, shall I not drink it? And this he speaketh to quiet Peter, when he would have fought for him. This is the cup that he had prayed thrice a little before, that it might pass from him. Math. 26, 39.40. but he submitted to his fathers will, and now behold he tasteth of it. It is the preface, and first act of his death. The matter of this cup, saith Matthew, was vinegar and gall.