Luke 22:44

Luke 22:44

42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless ^anot My will, but Yours, be done.”

43 Then ^aan angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.

44 ^aAnd being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.

46 Then He said to them, “Why ^ado you sleep? Rise and ^bpray, lest you enter into temptation.”

Betrayal and Arrest in Gethsemane

47 And while He was still speaking, ^abehold, a multitude; and he who was called ^bJudas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him.

48 But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a ^akiss?”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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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.

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