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Mat_27:48 f. A touch of sympathy on the part of some one who had been moved by the painful cry of Jesus, and who would fain relieve Him by reaching Him a cordial. What a contrast to this in Mat_27:49! According to Joh_19:28, Jesus expressly intimated that He was thirsty. Mar_15:36 makes it appear that the person who reached the drink to Jesus was also one of those who were mocking Him, a discrepancy which we should make no attempt to reconcile, and in which we can have no difficulty in detecting traces of a more corrupt tradition. Luke omits this incident altogether, though in Mat_23:36 he states that by way of mocking our Lord the soldiers offered Him the posca just before the darkness came on. Strauss takes advantage of these discrepancies so as to make it appear that they are but different applications of the prediction contained in Psalms 69, without, however, disputing the fact that drink had been given to Jesus on two different occasions.
ὄξους ] poscae, sour wine, the ordinary drink of the Roman soldiers. Comp. Mat_27:34 and Wetstein thereon.
ἄφες ] stop! don’t give him anything to drink! we want to see whether Elias whom he is invoking as his deliverer will come to his help, which help you would render unnecessary by giving him drink.
ἔρχεται ,] placed first for sake of emphasis: whether he is coming, does not fail coming!