Jan 26, 2024 · The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke, a physician, recorded that Jesus’ sweat was like drops of blood: “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44).

The detail of the sweat falling to the ground emphasizes the physical reality of Jesus' suffering. It also symbolizes the gravity of the moment, as the ground itself receives the first signs of the sacrifice to come.

The drops of blood that Jesus sweat in the Garden of Gethsemane surely fulfilled "the anguish of His soul" that Isaiah spoke of; that is, Jesus's passion was not merely physical but also spiritual. His anguish clearly demonstrated he was human and that his sufferings were real.

44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Apr 4, 2025 · Then once Jesus arrives at the Garden, Jesus tells his disciples that he is greatly distressed and troubled. He is sorrowful to the point of death. Luke captures this by the mention of sweating as it were drops of blood.

What I think you need to do to prove that Jesus sweat literal blood in Luke 22:44 is demonstrate that somewhere in the New Testament (especially Luke's writings), a clear, unambiguous, linguistic simile was also used in a literal sense (which is almost, if not actually, oxymoronic).

Jul 9, 2017 · It is because of this agony over things to come that we learn during His prayer, “his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). Only Luke referred to Jesus’ sweat (idros)—a much used term in medical language.

Dec 11, 2024 · In the quiet darkness of the Garden of Gethsemane, hours before His crucifixion, Jesus experienced intense anguish. Luke records this remarkable phenomenon: “And being in agony He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44).

Some interpreters have understood it to mean that Jesus’ sweat only looked like blood, emphasizing the size or profuseness of the droplets. Others interpret it as literal blood mingled with sweat.

Apr 18, 2024 · In the intense moments of prayer at the Garden of Gethsemane, it is possible Jesus experienced a condition known as hematidrosis—a rare medical phenomenon where individuals sweat blood. This occurs when small blood vessels around sweat glands burst under extreme stress, mixing blood with sweat.