Friday, 19 September 2014

Did Jesus really sweat blood?

Article by Nwogbo Chike D. Luke, the author of the new testament books of Luke and Acts of the Apostles, was by profession, a physician. His writings manifest an intimate acquaintance with the technical language of the Greek Medical schools of Asia Minor. For example, of all the four gospel writers, only Dr. Luke refers to Jesus' ordeal as agony (agonia). It is because of this agony over things to come that we learn during His prayer 'his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground'. (luke 22:44). Only Luke referred to Jesus' sweat (idros), a much used term in medical language and only Luke referred to Jesus' sweat as consisting of great drops of blood (thromboi haimatos)- a medical condition

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