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Why Did Jesus Sweat Blood?

Midnight Pete

Midnight Pete

Well-Known Member
angellous_evangellous said:
Sweating blood is perfectly natural when someone is under extreme stress.

However, your translation makes it unclear - it's a simile. It doesn't say that he sweat blood, but his sweat was falling like blood. Big difference.
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No, scripture says that Jesus actually sweat blood during his agony in the Garden of Gesthemane. Not intended as simile.
 
Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
Midnight Pete said:
No, scripture says that Jesus actually sweat blood during his agony in the Garden of Gesthemane. Not intended as simile.
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Yea, up to this point I thought I was the only one who realized this.

The word in the NT is....

hōsei
 as it were, (had been), as though, as, like as, like

Basically he was just sweating alot and none of it was blood......:cover:
 
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