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sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

This condition of bleeding from the pores is called hematidrosis, the effusion of blood in one’s
perspiration. It is a very rare and dangerous condition and can lead to death. It is caused by severe
emotional trauma.

Jesus, while in the Garden, was pressed by what was about to occur: the God of the Universe was about
to take upon Himself the eternal punishment for the sins of all mankind. The thought of becoming sin
PRESSED on him greatly. As the weight of the coming sacrifice pressed on him, he began to bleed from
the pores of His skin. Except for the fact that an angel came to strengthen Him, He could have physically
died from the press.

Isaiah 53: 1-6 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He
grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to
attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by
mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was
despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we
considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our
transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own
way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Why did Jesus Sweat Blood?

14.4 Let’s Practice…

1. In Matthew 12: 40 Jesus compared His burial to Jonah being in a fish. What was the
comparison?

2. Explain what a High Sabbath or High Holy Day is:

3. What does John 19:31 tell us about the Sabbath day just before Jesus was buried?

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