gall for my meat: Bochart, from a comparison of this passage with John 19:29, thinks that rosh: is the same herb as the evangelist calls υσσωπος:, hyssop; a species of which, growing in Judea, he proves from Isaac ben Orman, an Arabian writer, to be so bitter as not to be eatable. Theophylact expressly tells us, that the hyssop was added ως δηλητεριωδος:, as being deleterious, or poisonous, and Nonnus, in his paraphrase, says, Ωρεγεν υσσωπωκεκερασμενον οξος ολεθρου: "One gave the deadly acid mixed with hyssop." Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 23:15; Matthew 27:34, Matthew 27:48
vinegar: Mark 15:23, Mark 15:36; Luke 23:36; John 19:29-30