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Bill:

--- Quote from: Arcturus on April 11, 2007, 05:01:28 PM ---Hello Bill

You ask : Do you believe Christ sweat blood?

Matthew 26 : 36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He told His disciples, Sit down here while I go over yonder to pray. 37. And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to show grief and distress of mind and was deeply depressed. 38. Then He said to them, My soul is very sad and deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow..

I believe Jesus said what He meant and meant what He said. Also this sweat that was carrying His blood fulfills the sweat noted by God in Genesis 3 : 19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

Christ has fulfilled this through sweat sheding blood that finally became His blood outpoured on His cross on Calvery. Jesus is truly the fulfilment of the Scriptures and He alone is the first fruites of this fulfilment!

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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Hi Arcturus,

I see what you are saying and I like how you connect Gen3:19 to Luke. 

I am not sure if it really matters wheather he actually sweated Blood or not but as Ray always says we have to pay attention to every word.  So if Christ did actually sweat blood why does it say "as it where" which in greek is "hōsei" which is also translated to "like"  So his sweat was like blood.

Just curious to others thoughts/

God Bless

Deborah-Leigh:
Hi Bill

Well it was not blood per se like in blood that is released by nails piercing the flesh. It was as blood because it was sweat mingled with blood released below the surface under the skin that seeped through the pores of the skin.

How many times do we suffer under the surface, while keeping a straight face and we are torn up inside by knives of anguish and pain or memories of abuse and suffering?

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

josh:
This is just a thought…

In this same account from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus continually warns the disciples to pray so that they will not “fall into temptation.”

Luke 22:40
On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."

Luke 22:46
"Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation."

Perhaps this account is an intimate look at how our Savior faced the greatest temptation that any man has ever known…

Hebrews 4:15
15: For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

So he prays…

Luke 22:42
42: "Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done."

Completely innocent, without sin… yet still facing the shameful death of the cross…

So He resists the greatest temptation the world has ever know…

Hebrews 12:3-4
3: Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
4: In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

He resisted to the point of shedding blood...

Luke 22:44
44And (G)being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

Again, just a thought.

God’s Peace.
Josh

Deborah-Leigh:
Great thoughts Josh!

Thank you for the scriptures. I agree.

I also do not think anyone has known or will know what He endured for us until He returns! I personally believe that He endured the sum total of all human suffering down through the ages!

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

Pax Vobiscum:
Earliest reliable manuscripts do not contain these passages in the Third Gospel.  Not that it didn't happen per se, just that it was likely not written into the Gospel until much, much, much later.

Peace

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