for Elias. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith,

I thirst.

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,

It is finished.

And the vail of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

And having said thus, he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.


CHAPTER LXXV.