When Jesus drinks wine on the cross

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I have a few things that I dont understand. At the last supper Jesus says I will not drink of the fruit of the vine again until i drink it anew with you in the kingdom. But then Jesus drinks wine on the cross. I know this must mean something deeper but i dont understand what. I think it has something to do with the fourth cup? Like scott hann talks about. Jesus in the garden says father let this CUP pass from me, not my will… At the passover meal they only had 3 cups of wine when usually there is a fourth cup. So is the fourth cup the cup of his suffering and then he finishes it on the cross? So is that when the kingdom starts? And is the kingdom of God within us? Above us? in the future? they kingdom come, we say. its kinda confusing. Any thoughts?
 
Jesus drinks Gall in the cross, which is wine laced with narcotics.

There is also a play on words taking place with the blood and water flowing from the side of Jesus
 
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As Scott Hahn and others have explained, in the Passover Jesus had with his apostles, he did skip drinking the fourth cup, which was a significant omission.
Jesus is offered wine twice on the cross. The first offer would have been wine laced with painkiller which would have reduced his suffering. He refused it.
The second offer, he drinks the wine and says “It is finished” and dies right after, thus fulfilling the prophecy that he wouldn’t drink any more wine till he comes into his kingdom.

 
An interpretation I’ve heard was that He tasted, but didn’t drink, the wine offered to Him.
 
From the Gospel of Matthew 27:33-35: “And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull), they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink”

A careful reading answers the OP’ question.

What Christ was offered was sour wine laced with something which would be a pain killer. He refused to drink.

The second time he was offered wine, in a sponge, and according to Matthew, just before he died. As noted above, it represents the 4th cup, from the Passover ritual.
 
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