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Luke 22:44
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Jesus started praying some more. He prayed so hard that his sweat turned to blood and fell to the ground.
And being in agony He was praying very fervently, and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.
And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.
And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.
And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.
And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Luke 22:43-44 as not in the original text.">[fn]
Being in anguish, He prayed more fervently, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
while He--an agony of distress having come upon Him--prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.
And being in an agonie, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling downe to the ground.
And it came so, that he wrestled with death, and prayed the longer. And his sweate was like droppes of bloude, runnynge downe to the grounde.
and being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was like grumes of blood falling to the ground.
And being in agony [deeply distressed and anguished; almost to the point of death], He prayed more intently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down on the ground.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
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And he was in an agonye and prayed somwhat longer. And hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud tricklynge doune to the grounde.
And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground.
Being full of pain, Jesus prayed even harder. His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
Jesus was in great pain and prayed so sincerely that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood.
and in great anguish he prayed more intensely, so that his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
But being in an agonie, hee prayed more earnestly: and his sweate was like drops of blood, trickling downe to the ground.
And he was in fear, and prayed earnestly; and his sweat became like drops of blood; and he fell down upon the ground.
Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.[fn]John 12:27; Hebrews 5:7;">[xr]
And being in terror, more vehemently he prayed, and his sweat was as drops of blood, and fell upon the ground.
And as he was in fear, he prayed earnestly; and his sweat was like drops of blood; and it fell on the ground.
He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.
His heart was much troubled and He prayed all the more. Water ran from His face like blood and fell to the ground.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]]
And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And being in anguish, he began praying more fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.]]
And he was in an agonie, and he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was lyke droppes of blood, tricklyng downe to the grounde.
Jesus was full of pain; he struggled hard in prayer. Sweat dripped from his face like drops of blood falling to the ground.
And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And being in agony, He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground].
In great anguish he prayed even more fervently; his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
and his swot was maad as dropis of blood rennynge doun in to the erthe.
and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.
Contextual Overview
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being: Genesis 32:24-28, Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 22:12-21, Psalms 40:1-3, Psalms 69:14-18, Psalms 88:1-18, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Psalms 143:6, Psalms 143:7, Lamentations 1:12, Lamentations 3:53-56, Jonah 2:2, Jonah 2:3, John 12:27, Hebrews 5:7
his: Isaiah 53:10, Lamentations 1:12, Romans 8:32
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:10 - prayed 2 Samuel 22:7 - my distress Job 7:11 - the anguish Psalms 22:14 - I am Psalms 50:15 - call Psalms 55:5 - horror Psalms 61:2 - my heart Psalms 69:13 - my prayer Psalms 86:7 - General Psalms 88:15 - while Psalms 102:1 - overwhelmed Psalms 109:22 - and my Psalms 116:3 - sorrows Psalms 120:1 - my distress Psalms 143:4 - my heart Song of Solomon 5:2 - my head Isaiah 53:11 - see Matthew 26:37 - sorrowful Mark 14:33 - and began Mark 14:54 - and warmed Luke 22:55 - had John 18:18 - for Acts 16:25 - prayed Romans 8:26 - with 2 Corinthians 7:7 - earnest 2 Corinthians 13:4 - he was Galatians 4:19 - of Colossians 2:1 - what Colossians 4:12 - always James 5:13 - any among
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And being in an agony,.... Or in a conflict, and combat; that is, with thee devil, who now appeared visibly to him, in an horrible form: after his temptations in the wilderness Satan left him for a season, till another opportunity should offer; and now it did; now the prince of this world came to him; see Luke 4:13 and attacked him in a garden, where the first onset on human nature was made: and now began the battle between the two combatants, the serpent, and the seed of the woman; which issued in the destruction of Satan, and thee recovery of mankind. The Arabic version leaves out this clause; and the Syriac version renders it, "being in fear"; and to the same purpose are the Persic and Ethiopic versions; that is, of death; and must be understood of a sinless fear of death in his human nature, to which death, being a dissolution of it, must be disagreeable; though not death, barely considered, was the cause of this fear, distress, and agony he was in; but as it was to be inflicted on him for the sins of his people, which he bore, and as it was the curse of the law, and the effect of divine wrath and displeasure:
he prayed more earnestly; repeating the words he had said before with great eagerness and importunity, with intenseness of mind, and fervour of Spirit, with strong crying, and tears to him that was able to save him from death, Hebrews 5:7
and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling to the ground. This account of Christ's bloody sweat is only given by Luke, who being a physician, as is thought, more diligently recorded things which belonged to his profession to take cognizance of; nor should it be any objection to the truth and credibility of this fact, that it is not mentioned by the other evangelists, since it is no unusual thing with them for one to record that which is omitted by another; nor that this is wanting in some Greek and Latin copies, as Jerom w and Hilary x observe; since it was expunged, as is supposed, either by some orthodox persons, who weakly thought it might seem to favour the Arians, who denied that Christ was of the same impassible nature with the Father; or rather by the Armenians, or by a set of men called "Aphthartodocetae", who asserted the human nature of Christ to be incorruptible: but certain it is, that it is in the most ancient and approved copies, and in all the Oriental versions, and therefore to be retained; to which may be added, that it is taken notice of, not to mention others, by those two early writers, Justin Martyr y, and Irenaeus z; nor should its being so strange and unusual a sweat at all discredit the history of it, since there have been instances of this kind arising from various causes; and if there had been none, since the case of our Lord was singular, it ought to be credited. This bloody sweat did not arise from a cachexy, or ill state of body, which has sometimes been the cause of it, as Aristotle observes, who says a, that the blood sometimes becomes sanious, and so serous, insomuch that some have been covered with a "bloody sweat": and in another place he says b, that through an ill habit of body it has happened to some, that they have sweat a bloody excrement. Bartholinus produces instances in plagues and fevers c; but nothing of this kind appears in Christ, whose body was hale and robust, free from distempers and diseases, as it was proper it should, in order to do the work, and endure the sufferings he did; nor did it arise from any external heat, or a fatiguing journey. The above writer d a relates, from Actuarius, a story of a young man that had little globes of blood upon his skin, by sweat, through the heat of the sun, and a laborious journey. Christ's walk from Jerusalem to the garden was but a short one; and it was in the night when he had this sweat, and a cold night too; see John 18:18, it rather arose from the agony in which he was, before related: persons in an agony, or fit of trembling, sweat much, as Aristotle observes e; but to sweat blood is unusual. This might be occasioned by his vehement striving and wrestling with God in prayer, since the account follows immediately upon that; and might be owing to his strong cries, to the intenseness and fervour of his mind, and the commotion of the animal spirits, which was now very great, as some have thought; or, as others, to the fear of death, as it was set before him in so dreadful a view, and attended with such horrible circumstances. Thuanus f, a very grave and credible historian, reports of a governor of a certain garrison, who being, by a stratagem, decoyed from thence, and taken captive, and threatened with an ignominious death, was so affected with it, that he sweat a "bloody sweat" all over his body. And the same author g relates of a young man of Florence, who being, by the order of Pope Sixtus the Fifth, condemned, as he was led along to be executed, through the vehemence of his grief discharged blood instead of sweat, all over his body: and Maldonate, upon this passage, reports, that he had heard it from some who saw, or knew it, that at Paris, a man, robust, and in good health, hearing that a capital sentence was pronounced upon him, was, at once, all over in a bloody sweat: which instances show, that grief, surprise, and fear, have sometimes had such an effect on men; but it was not mere fear of death, and trouble of mind, concerning that, which thus wrought on our Lord, but the sense he had of the sins of his people, which were imputed to him, and the curse of the righteous law of God, which he endured, and especially the wrath of God, which was let into his soul: though some have thought this was owing to the conflict Christ had with the old serpent the devil; who, as before observed, now appeared to him in a frightful forth: and very remarkable is the passage which Dr. Lightfoot, and others, have cited from Diodorus Siculus, who reports of a certain country, that there are serpents in it, by whose bites are procured very painful deaths; and that grievous pains seize the person bitten, and also "a flow of sweat like blood". And other writers h make mention of a kind of asp, or serpent, called "Haemorrhois"; which, when it bites a man, causes him to sweat blood: and such a bloody sweat it should seem was occasioned by the bite of the old serpent Satan, now nibbling at Christ's heel, which was to be bruised by him: but of all the reasons and causes of this uncommon sweat, that of Clotzius is the most strange, that it should arise from the angels comforting and strengthening him, and from the cheerfulness and fortitude of his mind. This writer observes, that as fear and sorrow congeal the blood, alacrity and fortitude move it; and being moved, heat it, and drive it to the outward parts, and open a way for it through the pores: and this he thinks may be confirmed from the fruit and effect of Christ's prayer, which was very earnest, and was heard, as is said in Hebrews 5:7 when he was delivered from fear; which deliverance produced joy, and this joy issued in the bloody sweat. Some think the words do not necessarily imply, that this sweat was blood, or that there was blood in it; only that his sweat, as it came out of his body, and fell on the ground, was so large, and thick, and viscous, that it looked like drops, or clots of blood; but the case rather seems to be this, that the pores of Christ's body were so opened, that along with sweat came out blood, which flowed from him very largely; and as it fell on the ground, he being fallen on his face to the earth, it was so congealed by the cold in the night season, that it became really, as the word signifies, clots of blood upon the earth. The Persic version, different from all others, reads, "his tears, like blood, fell by drops upon the ground". This agony, and bloody sweat of Christ, prove the truth of his human nature; the sweat shows that he had a true and real body, as other men; the anxiety of his mind, that he had a reasonable soul capable of grief and sorrow, as human souls are; and they also prove his being made sin and a curse for us, and his sustaining our sins, and the wrath of God: nor could it be at all unsuitable to him, and unworthy of him, to sweat in this manner, whose blood was to be shed for the sins of his people, and who came by blood and water, and from whom both were to flow; signifying, that both sanctification and justification are from him.
w Advers. Pelag. l. 2. fol. 96. F. x De Trinitate, l. 10. p. 155. y Dialog. cum Tryph. p. 331. z Adv. Haeres. l. 3. c. 32. a De Hist. Animal. l. 3. c. 19. b De Part. Animal. l. 3. c. 5. c De Cruce Hypomnem. 4. p. 185, 186. d lb. p. 184. e Problem, sect. 2. c. 26, 31. f Hist. sui Temporis, par. 1. l. 8. p. 804, 805. g lb. par. 4. l. 82. p. 69. h Solin, Polyhistor, c. 40, Isidor. Hispalens. Etymolog. l. 12. c. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the Matthew 26:30-46 notes; Mark 14:26-42 notes.
Luke 22:43
Strengthening him - His human nature, to sustain the great burden that was upon his soul. Some have supposed from this that he was not divine as well as human; for if he was “God,” how could an angel give any strength or comfort? and why did not the divine nature “alone” sustain the human? But the fact that he was “divine” does not affect the case at all. It might be asked with the same propriety, If he was, as all admit, the friend of God, and beloved of God, and holy, why, if he was a mere man, did not “God” sustain him alone, without an angel’s intervening? But the objection in neither case would have any force. The “man, Christ Jesus,” was suffering. His human nature was in agony, and it is the “manner” of God to sustain the afflicted by the intervention of others; nor was there any more “unfitness” in sustaining the human nature of his Son in this manner than any other sufferer.
Luke 22:44
In an agony - See this verse explained in the notes at Matthew 26:42-44.
Luke 22:45
Sleeping for sorrow - On account of the greatness of their sorrow. See the notes at Matthew 26:40.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 44. Prayed more earnestly — With greater emphasis and earnestness than usual, with strong crying and tears, Hebrews 5:7; the reason given for which is, that he was in an agony. Kypke well observes, Vox αγωνια summum animi angorem et dolorem indicat; et idem est, quod αδημονειν, Matthew 26:37; Mark 14:34. "The word αγωνια (agony) points out the utmost anguish and grief of soul, and is of the same import with αδημονειν in Matthew and Mark." Matthew 26:37; Matthew 26:37.
Drops of blood — Matthew 26:38; Matthew 26:38. Some have thought that the meaning of the words is, that the sweat was so profuse that every drop was as large as a drop of blood, not that the sweat was blood itself: but this does not appear likely. There have been cases in which persons in a debilitated state of body, or through horror of soul, have had their sweat tinged with blood. Dr. Mead from Galen observes, Contingere interdum, poros ex multo aut fervido spiritu adeo dilatari, ut etiam exeat sanguis per eos, fiatque sudor sanguineus. "Cases sometimes happen in which, through mental pressure, the pores may be so dilated that the blood may issue from them; so that there may be a bloody sweat." And Bishop PEARCE gives an instance from Thuanus (De Thou) of an Italian gentleman being so distressed with the fear of death that his body was covered with a bloody sweat. But it is fully evident that the fear of death could have no place in the mind of our blessed Lord. He was in the bloom of life, in perfect health, and had never suffered any thing from disease of any kind; this sweat was most assuredly produced by a preternatural cause. See at the end of the chapter. Luke 22:71; Luke 22:71.
