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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.

The synoptic Gospels give most of the details of the prayer of Jesus in the Garden. John simply tells us
that they went to the Garden. Of interest is that both Matthew and Mark inform us that Jesus asked the
disciples to pray with Him three times, but Jesus found them sleeping. Three times Jesus prayed as the
weight of the coming sin pressed him. Each time the weight grew greater. Luke tells us that as a result
of the weight, the drops of blood flowed from Christ’s brow. Just as olives are pressed for their oil three
times, so Jesus was crushed by the weight of becoming sin for us who knew no sin (2 Cor. 5:21).

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:

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