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@ a source familiar with the matter
2025-04-20 12:48:46
AI search result slop claims the vinegar was likely posca, a type of sour wine commonly drunk by the Roman soldiers.
Another explanation is that the whole thing was faked by the Romans to mollify Jewish elites, in which case presumably Jesus was in on it and they could have offered him water.
The Roman governor of a province was basically a dictator. He was immune from prosecution and his word was law within his province. After the Roman governor declares Christ innocent, for the Romans to put him to death anyway would be a serious crime. Logically, then, the soldiers didn't do that and certainly not publicly.
Of course if you worship Christ as a zombie Jewish space angel who sacrificed himself to himself, you may not find my alternative theories plausible.