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At the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus was praying to the Father while his disciple were asleep, the intensity of Jesus’ prayer was so incredible that physically, blood was coming out of his pores (Luke 22:44). Jesus bloody sweat is evidence of great grief. Hematidrosis is a very rare condition in which a person sweats blood when under extreme physical or emotional stress. The artist Leonardo da Vinci wrote about a soldier who had bloody sweat after battle. When under stress, the body goes into flight-or-fight mode. This flight-or-fight response can trigger the rupture of capillaries in the body. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels located throughout tissue. They carry essential nutrients to different parts of the body. Capillaries are also located around the sweat glands. In cases of severe fear or stress, these tiny blood vessels can burst and cause blood to exit the body through the sweat glands.
Jesus was exceedingly sorrowful in His soul to the point of death that He sweat blood, knowing full well that His hour was at hand. That moment of separation from His Father for the very first time since before eternity was at hand. Not only would Jesus have to endure physical pain and torture at Calvary, but even worse, Jesus would experience the full wrath of a sin-hating Father, when the sin of humanity would rain on His sinless body at that moment of separation from His Father. Such absolute, total, wrenching, and crushing heartache. It is not surprising to me atleast that Jesus died remarkably sooner than expected while the two thieves that were crucified by His side died hours later. I heard of a Danish doctor by the name Richtor, who dedicated himself to the studying of torture of the Crucifixion. After years of study, he concluded that Jesus died of a brokenheart… The very heart of Christ is Compassion. Jesus died in darkness so that we may live in light; Jesus died in silence so that we may forever have a word from the LORD; Jesus died forsaken so that we may be accepted… I’ll never know how much it cost, to see my sin upon that Cross.
The Heart
Jesus was exceedingly sorrowful in His soul to the point of death that He sweat blood, knowing full well that His hour was at hand. That moment of separation from His Father for the very first time since before eternity was at hand. Not only would Jesus have to endure physical pain and torture at Calvary, but even worse, Jesus would experience the full wrath of a sin-hating Father, when the sin of humanity would rain on His sinless body at that moment of separation from His Father. Such absolute, total, wrenching, and crushing heartache. It is not surprising to me atleast that Jesus died remarkably sooner than expected while the two thieves that were crucified by His side died hours later. I heard of a Danish doctor by the name Richtor, who dedicated himself to the studying of torture of the Crucifixion. After years of study, he concluded that Jesus died of a brokenheart… The very heart of Christ is Compassion. Jesus died in darkness so that we may live in light; Jesus died in silence so that we may forever have a word from the LORD; Jesus died forsaken so that we may be accepted… I’ll never know how much it cost, to see my sin upon that Cross.
The Heart