Luke 22:44

[Fred J]

'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.'

There are sermons about this ordeal and researched scientifically that a person is possible to sweat blood and that's what happened to Jesus Christ.

Is it true?

 

[Mark51]

'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.'

There are sermons about this ordeal and researched scientifically that a person is possible to sweat blood and that's what happened to Jesus Christ.

Is it true?

According to The Journal of the American Medical Association: “…this is a very rare phenomenon…may occur in highly emotional states.” Bloody sweat has reportedly occurred in certain cases of extreme mental stress. Blood or elements thereof will seep through unruptured walls of blood vessels in a condition called diapedesis,

The writer, Luke, does not say that Jesus’ sweat was actually mingled with his blood. sweat. He may only have been drawing a comparison, perhaps indicating that Christ’s perspiration formed like drops of blood or describing how the dripping of Jesus’ sweat resembled a drop-by-drop flowing of blood from a wound. However, Jesus’ blood may have exuded through his skin, being mixed with his