Object: a bottle of red wine vinegar, clean sponge cut into small pieces, bowl

Hi, boys and girls. You've been very faithful in coming to these special Lenten services. In the Bible lesson for tonight, we learned that a soldier put wine vinegar on a sponge for Jesus to drink just before he died. I brought some. Would you like to try it? (Pour wine vinegar into bowl, and dip sponge pieces into it, giving each child a sample.) It tastes awful, doesn't it? Why do you suppose the soldier gave wine vinegar to Jesus? (Let several children answer.) I don't…