Sponge

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[All words by Pastor Mark Driscoll from the sermon "Jesus’ Crucifixion and Death"]

They did something that was most shameful to Jesus. I didn't learn it until I was in Ephesus in Turkey at an archeological dig.

There was an open area with some forty-plus toilets. It was one of the first ancient public restrooms. There were no stalls, everyone sat out in the open on these marble slabs: toilets. The aqueducts would deliver the water underneath. They didn't use toilet paper and so there would be a trough of water that would proceed in front of the person who was using the toilet and they would use it to clean themselves.

What happened then is that some of the peasants and poorer slaves realized that there was potential income here so they got one of the many sea sponges, put it on a long stick, they would slop it in the water and they would use it to clean the person who was using the public restroom. These sponges could be used for hundreds of people in a day.

The Bible tells us that when Jesus was hanging on a cross, they offered Him what?

A sponge.

It was that sponge.

It was that sponge.

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released December 31, 2011

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