Sweating Blood

1999-12-9 07:57:00

CW Writes:
I have an extensive library ... but the only reference I can find to this is that in some versions of Luke (22.44), the words are used...

"his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground" (KJV)

"his sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground" (New KJV)

"his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood" (NJV)

"his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground (RSV)

Now to me, there is a huge difference between "sweating blood" and "sweat falling like blood"

JJ
Why would the word "blood" be used in connection with "sweat" here unless blood was involved?

If we translate this verse correctly we have additional evidence that something like sweating blood occurred. The word "drops" comes from the Greek THROMBOS which literally means "clot," another word associated with blood. The literal translation is: "his sweat became as great clots of blood."

In the Gospel of the Nazarenes, taken from the oldest Christian manuscripts on earth we read:

"And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as if it
were great drops of blood falling to the earth." Chapter 77 verse 10

The Aquarian Gospel also verifies this. It reads:

"In agony he prayed; the strain upon the human form was great; his veins were burst asunder, and his brow was bathed in blood." AG 163:50

In the Book of Mormon we read:

And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people. Mosiah 3:7

I the writings of H P Blavatsky who had direct contact with the Brotherhood:

"They make it clear that he would rather have lived to continue what he considered his mission, and that he died because he could not help it, and only when betrayed. Before, when threatened with violence, he had made himself invisible by employing the mesmeric power over the bystanders, claimed by every Eastern adept, and escaped. When, finally, he saw that his time had come, he succumbed to the inevitable. But see him in the garden, on the Mount of Olives, writhing in agony until "his sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood," praying with fervid supplication that the cup might be removed from him; exhausted by his struggle to such a degree that an angel from heaven had to come and strengthen him."

All indications here are that Jesus was under tremendous stress that caused an appearance of sweating blood. If in doubt ask for a revelation on the matter.

I'm short on time tonight. More tomorrow.