A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, "It is finished." John 19:29-30

By the third hour of the afternoon, Golgotha’s hill had become an eerie place. A thick darkness had fallen over the Hill of the Skull. The darkness had gathered over the hill around noon, but now, it was a little after three o’clock and the darkness was giving way to the returning of daylight. By now, it was very evident that the physical strength of Jesus was fading away. Most of those who had been watching the events on the hill had gone their separate ways in fear. What they saw and heard would last for years in their memories. And, as the ugly darkness changed to a bright, new daylig…