In John Chapter 19, it says :
28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
The question then becomes, where did romans get a sponge, and why was it conveniently in place. Here is the horrible truth:
To understand why these verses are important, you need to understand the Roman toilet. During Roman times, they developed the first modern toilet. It had a toilet seat (circled in red) and a small gutter below it (circled in yellow). when taking a sit, a roman citizen would wipe their ass using a sponge tied to a stick. The sponge was sourced from natural sponges fished from the Mediterranean ocean. They have the same physical properties as modern sponges, once they have been dried out in the sunlight.
Due to how costly it was to transport the sponges, they were not thrown out. They would be dipped in the gutter, wiped on the ass, and then returned next to the toilet seat for the next user. The gutter was often filled with vinegar water, salty sea water, and herbs to keep in smelling nice. When not in the city, Roman soldiers would carry a pot of vinegar wine, mixed with sea water, and a communal sponge for wiping their ass.
The sponge, called a [SIZE=6]tersorium[/SIZE], was the first primitive form of soft toilet paper. Before it, the Greeks used sand or just their hands to wipe their assholes. So it was a huge improvement.
In the final moment when Jesus said he was thirsty, the soldiers took offence. Here was a convicted terrorist, and separatist, asking them, soldiers of the imperial roman army, for a drink. They would have ignored the request were it not for a nearby communal sponge, and vinegar pot. So the soldiers decided to disrespect the Messiah by quenching his thirst by dipping the tersorium in shit-filled vinegar mixture, and he was so thirsty from carrying the cross he drunk it. The mixture still had bits of shit from the normal roman soldier diet of beans, and fish. Our Messiah, who is risen, spent his last moment with a mounthful of shit in his mounth. Sad