“sponge” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word sponge appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 3 matching verses are shown below.
- Matthew 27:48 And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink.
- Mark 15:36 And one running and filling a sponge with vinegar and putting it upon a reed, gave him to drink, saying: Stay, let us see if Elias come to take him down.
- John 19:29 Now there was a vessel set there, full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth.