John 19:28

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things already had been fulfilled, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I thirst!”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her into his own care. 1 It Is Finished

29Now a vessel was set full of sour wine; and they, having filled a sponge with sour wine, put it around a hyssop, they held it to His mouth.

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Cross References

Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is completed!

Luke 22:37For I say to you that this which has been written must still be accomplished in Me—the saying, ‘ And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have a fulfillment.”

John 18:4Jesus therefore, knowing all things coming upon Him, went out and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”

John 19:30Therefore when Jesus received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. 1 Jesus' Side Is Pierced

Matthew Henry on John 19:20-31

The Inscription on the Cross; The Crucifixion. 19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. 23 Then the… Read the whole commentary →

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