The Curious Case of the Weres (Part I)

Theirs is not always pride. I am well aware. However, sometimes it is, and sometimes, there is a contingent of know-it-alls that love to toss terms around like Hematidrosis. I mean it sounds intelligent right?

More than a few pastors include said term in their sermons which include Luke 2:44, but did Jesus really sweat great drops of blood?" In the Garden of Gethsemane?  Of a surety, he would bleed profusely shortly thereafter. Would it minimize his agony however if he was sweating profusely as he prayed to God and our Father and his sweat contained no blood? Let's examine Luke 22:44 together, shall we?

"And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly:

and his

>sweat<

was as it

were (a great comparison) 

great drops of blood

falling to the ground." (Luke 22:44)

Most people think of Fiddler on the Roof and, "If I WERE a rich man, Yubby, dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum. All day long I'd biddy biddy bum, 

If I 

were

a wealthy man." (Indicating the vocalist was anything but a wealthy man.

Jesus was in great agony, and the Christ weight of that which he was here for was grievous. That said, he did not sweat great drops of blood. All pastors and televangelists would do well to read God's word, sit down and be still. 

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