Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
In an agony (en agwniai). It was conflict, contest from agwn. An old word, but only here in the N.T. Satan pressed Jesus harder than ever before.
As it were great drops of blood (wsei qromboi aimatov). Thick, clotted blood. An old word (qromboi) common in medical works, but here only in the N.T. This passage (verses Luke 22:43-44) is absent from some ancient documents. Aristotle speaks of a bloody sweat as does Theophrastus.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 22:44:
Luke 13:24
Luke 22:44
Acts 12:5
Romans 15:30
Hebrews 2:18
Hebrews 5:7
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