Why did Jesus sweat blood in Gesthemany?

Question

At a private meeting with my minister he "confessed" to me about a very bad thing he had done. I recoiled from that information and wished he had chosen someone else to confess to. Now, I only had to carry the burden of one sin this man had told me about and yet it was uncomfortable for me. This brings me back to my question above.

Jesus knew that the sins of the entire world were about to descend upon Him, on the cross, as The Lamb of God, and yet He saw it through. Wow.

This is why God The Father gave all power in heaven and earth to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and why believers must be baptised for the remission of sin in The Name of Jesus Christ. The Trinity, with all due respect and reverence did not shed a single drop of blood on the cross.

Answer 1

Because he knew living in sin and guilt for disobeying the Bible leads to the height of emotional pain. And because of the the physical pain he was about to endure on the cross and in h**l.

Answer 2

Jesus Christ is a "member" of the Trinity.

Answer 3

Because of the agony He was going through in Gethsemane, and the agony He knew He was soon to endure.

Answer 4

I am afraid it does not say that he did sweat blood, it says that he sweat as if it were drops of blood. It simply means, that he was heavily sweating as he wrestled with the task before him.

Answer 5

It's not common, but it is not unheard of. There are well documented cases of people sweating blood under extreme duress. With it not being common it's not unreasonable that he did not sweat blood on the cross. However on the flip side he was probably so bloodied that no one probably would have been able to tell either. The Romans were experts at killing people.

Answer 6

I'm sorry did you have a question in that religious nonsense?

Answer 7

Dramatic effect.

Answer 8

When He, Jesus was stabbed with a lance, blood and water issued forth. God Bless you.

Answer 9

You're telling me that you just wasted my time on a question you answered yourself.  Argghh!  This pisses me off so much >:(

Answer 10

Why is it that Jesus was sweating drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane?

- VJ from Henderson

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The Answer

Part 1: Jesus the Suffering Servant

Part 2: The Two Gardens

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Jesus the Suffering Servant (Part 1)

This question came in quite some time ago but it seems particularly pertinent to answer it now while we are in the season of Lent. Lent is that forty day period culminating in Easter Sunday when we take time to reflect on Jesus Christ as the "Suffering Servant."

It is in Isaiah 53 that we see the beautiful prophetic picture of the Messiah who would redeem us with much suffering. From it we hear the foreshadowing of his passion; "Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried…He was pierced through for our transgressions…by His scourging we are healed…He was oppressed and he was afflicted…as a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied."

The drops of blood that Jesus sweat in the Garden of Gethsemane surely fulfills "the anguish of His soul" that Isaiah spoke of. We are told of this incident only in the gospel of Luke. That seems appropriate because Luke was a physician and he would have been very interested in medical details.

"And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground." (Luke 22:44) Jesus had gone to the garden with his disciples after the Last Supper. He knew that this was it! His mission was getting ready to be fulfilled. He would be betrayed and arrested in the garden. His disciples would run off and desert him. This was the countdown to his excruciating death on the cross.

Sweating drops of blood is not unknown in medicine but it is a rare occurrence. The clinical word for it is "hematohidrosis". It can happen when the blood vessels around the sweat glands constrict (due to extreme stress) and then dilate to the point of rupture. The blood is released from the body through the sweat glands.

Next: Why did this happen to Jesus?

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The Two Gardens (Part 2)

The fact that Jesus sweat drops of blood is an indication to us of how severe his suffering was. It points to the fact that besides being fully God, he was fully man. He did not use his Godhood to evade or sidestep any of the pain he was about to undergo. He FELT it all in his physical body and knowing what was coming was extreme anguish in his mind and emotions.

The Garden of Gethsemane was the prelude to the arrest, trial, scourging and crucifixion. It was in the garden that Jesus fully decided to embrace the cross. It was not a done deal until he said; "…yet not My will, but Thine be done." (Luke 22:42) If not for the garden, the victory over sin could not have been secured because there would have been no cross.

Now think of another garden: the Garden of Eden. In that first garden, sin won out. It was in that first garden that Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and commit the original sin.

Did Jesus have that in mind when he chose the Garden of Gethsemane for prayer before the onset of his passion? He was reversing the curse that had been launched those thousands of years before by the first man and woman.

The sweating of drops of blood gives us a hint about what the decision in the garden cost. It reminds us of the cost of God's love. The Father was willing to give his Son and the Son was willing to pay the complete price for our redemption. The question for each of us is: are we willing to receive this great gift?

hope this helps you out.

Answer 11

Luke 22:44 states: “But getting into an agony he continued praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as drops of blood falling to the ground.” The writer does not say that Jesus’ sweat was actually mingled with his blood. 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. On the other hand, Jesus’ blood may have exuded through his skin, being mixed with his sweat. 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, and in hematidrosis there is an excreting of perspiration tinged with blood pigment or blood, or of bodily fluid mingled with blood, thus resulting in the ‘sweating of blood.’ These, of course, are only suggestions as to what possibly took place in Jesus’ case.