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This sorcerer had witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit and saw it as a means to financial gain. Peter uses the term gall in rebuking Simon the sorcerer in Acts 8:23. Psalm 69:21 records these prophetic words: “They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.” This prophetic mention of gall is only one of the dozens of messianic prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. The fact that Jesus was offered gall was prophesied thousands of years before Jesus was born.

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To accept wine with gall would lessen sin’s punishment, and Jesus had come to bear the full brunt of God’s wrath against sin, not to take an easier way out (Isaiah 53:10). On the cross, Jesus became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21). Sin against a holy God required extreme punishment, and, in order to completely fulfill His position as our substitute, Jesus wanted nothing that took away from that punishment.

In a supernatural display of courage, the Son of Man rejected anything that would numb the suffering He endured for our salvation.

Jesus refused this gall-laced concoction after He tasted it and realized what it was (Mark 15:23 John 19:29). The mixture of sour wine and gall was often given to the suffering to ease their pain in death. Wine mixed with bitter herbs or myrrh created a potion that dulled the sense of pain. Matthew 27:34 says that, as Jesus was being crucified, the Roman soldiers offered “wine to drink, mixed with gall.” Mark 15:23 specifies that the bitterness in the wine was due to the presence of myrrh. The most famous biblical use of the word gall is in reference to a drink given to Jesus on the cross. In the Bible, the word gall most often refers to a bitter-tasting substance made of a plant such as wormwood or myrrh.