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Hi there, many others like you have asked, Why did Jesus sweat blood?
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Let's find out, shall we?
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The night before Jesus was crucified, he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Luke, a physician, recorded that Jesus' sweat was like drops of blood.
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And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly.
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Then his sweat became like great drops of blood, falling down to the ground.
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Some consider Luke's description as mere simile.
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Jesus' sweat fell to the ground in large heavy drops, the way that blood drips from an open wound.
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However, there exists a medical condition that produces the symptoms described.
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Hematidrosis is a rare but very real medical condition that causes one's sweat
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The sweat glands are surrounded by tiny blood vessels that can constrict and then dilate to the
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point of rupture, causing blood to effuse into the sweat glands.
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The cause of hematidrosis is extreme anguish.
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In the other Gospel accounts, we see the level of Jesus' anguish.
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My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.
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The intense anguish and sorrow that Jesus felt was certainly understandable.
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Being God, Christ knew in painstaking detail the events that were to soon follow.
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He knew he was about to undergo several trials where all of the witnesses would lie.
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He knew that many who had hailed him as Messiah would now scream for his crucifixion.
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He knew that he would be flogged nearly to the point of death before they pounded the metal spikes into his
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He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken seven centuries earlier, that he would be disfigured
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beyond that of any man and beyond human likeness.
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Certainly, these things factored into his sweating drops of blood.
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Yet there was even more to come.
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Crucifixion was considered to be the most painful and torturous method of execution ever devised,
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and it was used on the most despised and wicked people.
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So horrific was the pain in that a word was designed to help explain it.
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Excruciating, which literally means, from the cross.
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From his arrest in the garden until his death, scripture records only one instance where Jesus cried
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out in a loud voice, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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Our sinless Savior bore the weight of the world's sins on his shoulders.
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The spiritual pain greatly exceeded Christ's intense physical pain.
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Human history began in a garden where death entered the world through Adam's sin.
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Thousands of years later, Jesus Christ, the last Adam, entered into another garden to accept
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his task, and death was about to be swallowed up in victory.
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In conclusion, we are the ones responsible for the blood that dripped from our Savior as he prayed in the garden.
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And we are the reason Jesus' soul was overwhelmed with great sorrow to the point of death.
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Indeed, these bloodied sweat drops came at a great cost.
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Let us never forget that.
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