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 So was the soldier with the wine being kind?  Is he the one exception to the rule of judgement, when he extends a drink to the beaten savior?
-The answer is that the soldier was humiliating Jesus.  A sponge on a stick is the Roman equivalent of toilet paper, which they would place in a disinfecting liquid like vinegar or cheap wine between uses.  That is why the wine was in a bowl, and why the soldier had a sponge on the hill in the first place.
+The answer is that the soldier was humiliating Jesus.  A sponge on a stick was the Roman equivalent of toilet paper, which they would place in a disinfecting liquid like vinegar or cheap wine between communal uses.  That is why the soldiers had a vessel full of cheap wine and a sponge on the hill in the first place.
 “To fulfill the scripture”, Jesus took the curse intended for the priests on himself.  When the Roman soldier spread his own dung on Jesus' face, he added human dung to the recipe of the bread of life that God sent from heaven.  And with that, Jesus became Jerusalem’s Dung Gate.  He took all of our evil, iniquity, and sorrow into himself, as well as the judgment and curse for that evil.  Looking down from Golgotha, Jesus would have seen Jerusalem, and perhaps the Hinnom Valley in the distance.  Jesus’ last experience was to taste the dunghill - hell on earth.  Then he cried “It is finished”, and with his last breath took your shame to hell in his own embrace.