I am fascinated with the human body and how it works/doesn't work. The human body is so well made that it boggles my mind. God's mind is so creative and I'll never understand the mind of God who created it. Our bodies are so complicated and yet it all works in unison.
I was talking to MM, about understanding 'sweating blood.' So I've researched it. Don't take my word for it, research it yourself. What every website said, a very few have this as it's rare. It happens when someone is under extreme stress, mainly death. I have copied and will paste it on the board. This explantion seems to answer all questions.
Question: "Why did Jesus sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane?"
Answer: The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. It is in Lukes gospel where we see that His 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). Hematidrosis is a rare, but very real, medical condition where ones sweat will contain blood. The sweat glands are surrounded by tiny blood vessels. These vessels can constrict and then dilate to the point of rupture where the blood will then effuse into the sweat glands. Its cause extremeanguish. In the other Gospel accounts, we see Jesus level of anguish: My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death (Matthew 26:38; Mark 14:34).
The intense anguish and sorrow Jesus felt was certainly understandable. Being God, Christ knew all that was going to happen to Him (John 18:4). He knew in painstaking detail the events that were to follow soon after He was betrayed by one of His very own disciples. Although our Savior never lied (1 Peter 2:22; Isaiah 53:9), He knew was about to undergo several trials where all of the witnesses against Him would do nothing but lie. He knew that many who hailed Him as the Messiah only days earlier would now be screaming for His crucifixion (Luke 23:23). He knew He would be flogged nearly to the point of death before they pounded the metal spikes into His flesh. He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken seven centuries earlier that He would be beaten so badly that He would be disfigured beyond that of any man and beyond human likeness (Isaiah 52:14). Certainly these things factored into His great anguish and sorrow, causing Him to sweat drops of blood. Yet there was more.
Crucifixion was considered to be the most painful and torturous method of execution ever devised and was used on the most despised and wicked people. In fact, so horrific was the pain that a word was described designed to help explain itexcruciating, which means from the cross. From His arrest in the Garden until the time our Lord stated it is finished (John 19:30), Scripture records only one instance where Jesus cried out in a loud voice (Matthew 27:46). As our sinless Savior bore the weight of the worlds sins on His shoulders, His Father must have looked away as His eyes are too pure to look on evil (Habakkuk1:13), causing the suffering Servant to cry out Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani My God, My God why have you forsaken Me (Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46). Their eternal Trinitarian unity was disrupted because of our sinfulness. The spiritual pain of this abandonment no doubt greatly exceeded the intense physical pain the Lord endured on our behalf.
At the beginning of creation, human history began in a garden (Genesis 2:8), and when the first Adam sinned against God in this garden, death entered the world (Genesis 3:6). Thousands of years later, Jesus Christ, the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), entered into another garden to accept the cup from His Fathers hand (Matthew 26:42; Mark 14:36;Luke 22:42), and death was about to be swallowed up in victory. Although Gods plan was designed before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-5), we must never forget that its execution came at a great cost. Ultimately, then, we are the ones responsible for the blood that dripped from our Savior as He prayed in the garden. We are the reason Jesus soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. And we are the ones who caused God the Father to abandon God the Son. Indeed, these bloodied tear drops came at a great cost; let us never forget that.
I found this to be awesome! IMO, Jesus began shedding His blood in the garden for us. Amazing, isn't is!
I was talking to MM, about understanding 'sweating blood.' So I've researched it. Don't take my word for it, research it yourself. What every website said, a very few have this as it's rare. It happens when someone is under extreme stress, mainly death. I have copied and will paste it on the board. This explantion seems to answer all questions.
Question: "Why did Jesus sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane?"
Answer: The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. It is in Lukes gospel where we see that His 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). Hematidrosis is a rare, but very real, medical condition where ones sweat will contain blood. The sweat glands are surrounded by tiny blood vessels. These vessels can constrict and then dilate to the point of rupture where the blood will then effuse into the sweat glands. Its cause extremeanguish. In the other Gospel accounts, we see Jesus level of anguish: My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death (Matthew 26:38; Mark 14:34).
The intense anguish and sorrow Jesus felt was certainly understandable. Being God, Christ knew all that was going to happen to Him (John 18:4). He knew in painstaking detail the events that were to follow soon after He was betrayed by one of His very own disciples. Although our Savior never lied (1 Peter 2:22; Isaiah 53:9), He knew was about to undergo several trials where all of the witnesses against Him would do nothing but lie. He knew that many who hailed Him as the Messiah only days earlier would now be screaming for His crucifixion (Luke 23:23). He knew He would be flogged nearly to the point of death before they pounded the metal spikes into His flesh. He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken seven centuries earlier that He would be beaten so badly that He would be disfigured beyond that of any man and beyond human likeness (Isaiah 52:14). Certainly these things factored into His great anguish and sorrow, causing Him to sweat drops of blood. Yet there was more.
Crucifixion was considered to be the most painful and torturous method of execution ever devised and was used on the most despised and wicked people. In fact, so horrific was the pain that a word was described designed to help explain itexcruciating, which means from the cross. From His arrest in the Garden until the time our Lord stated it is finished (John 19:30), Scripture records only one instance where Jesus cried out in a loud voice (Matthew 27:46). As our sinless Savior bore the weight of the worlds sins on His shoulders, His Father must have looked away as His eyes are too pure to look on evil (Habakkuk1:13), causing the suffering Servant to cry out Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani My God, My God why have you forsaken Me (Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46). Their eternal Trinitarian unity was disrupted because of our sinfulness. The spiritual pain of this abandonment no doubt greatly exceeded the intense physical pain the Lord endured on our behalf.
At the beginning of creation, human history began in a garden (Genesis 2:8), and when the first Adam sinned against God in this garden, death entered the world (Genesis 3:6). Thousands of years later, Jesus Christ, the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), entered into another garden to accept the cup from His Fathers hand (Matthew 26:42; Mark 14:36;Luke 22:42), and death was about to be swallowed up in victory. Although Gods plan was designed before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-5), we must never forget that its execution came at a great cost. Ultimately, then, we are the ones responsible for the blood that dripped from our Savior as He prayed in the garden. We are the reason Jesus soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. And we are the ones who caused God the Father to abandon God the Son. Indeed, these bloodied tear drops came at a great cost; let us never forget that.
I found this to be awesome! IMO, Jesus began shedding His blood in the garden for us. Amazing, isn't is!
