The Fountain Cried, "I Thirst"

What has amazed me as I have been meditating, studying and meditating on this message, “I thirst!” – is that these words came between two loud cries. After three hours of utter darkness, Jesus cried with a loud voice—“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Following this loud said, (and it was probably in a dry, hoarse gasp) “I thirst!” Then having taken the vinegar or sour wine, Mark 15: 37 tells us Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed His last. Matthew 27: 30 tells us, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit.” The last loud cry was just a few words we call the sixth and seventh words, “It is finished! Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit!” It would be easy to miss these two English words—which were only one Greek word—dipsao. Dipsao means “I thirst or I desire earnestly.” Both of those meanings let us into the heart of our Lord Jesus in his last few moments of earthly life in a body like ours. The blackness of darkness has ended. There was now enough light for a bystander, (Matthews 27: 47 to put sour wine or vinegar up to Jesus’s lips. I ask you, with me to study today this one Greek word and its meanings in five different ways. What are they?