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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Jesus Consciously Endured the Punishment for Our Sins
Description: They brought [Jesus] to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.Mark 15:22-23The wine mixed with myrrh had the same effect as a mild sedative. Crucifixion was so barbaric, and the pain involved so horrific, that according to tradition some relief was offered to the victim just before he was nailed to the cross.We don’t know who offered this drink to Jesus—most likely it was the women who followed Him to the...