After reading an article online, I thought
I had to share it with you guys. I was browsing through a Christian website
where I came across question and answers section, it attracted me to read
through a few questions. When I came across a specific question asked by a person,
I was keen to know the answer, but when I read through it I was laughing at
these bewildered Christian scholars.
Let me show u the question followed by the
answer given by bible expert. ending with my comment
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Question posed:
SWEATING BLOOD - The Bible states that
Jesus perspired drops of blood. How is that possible?
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Answer:
Before the crucifixion, as Jesus Christ
prayed in the Garden of Gesthemane, the disciple and physician Luke noted that:
“And being in anguish, he prayed more
earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” —Luke
22:44 (NKJV)
This was written by the physician Luke, a
well-educated man and a careful observer by profession.
Luke is also the only gospel writer to mention
the bloody sweat, possibly because of his interest as a physician in this rare
physiological phenomenon, which spoke elequently of the intense spiritual agony
Jesus was suffering… (Dr. Henry M. Morris, The Defenders Bible, arginal notes
for Luke 22:44)
Although this medical condition is
relatively rare, according to Dr. Frederick Zugibe (Chief Medical Examiner of
Rockland County, New York) it is well-known, and there have been many cases of
it. The clinical term is “hematohidrosis.” “Around the sweat glands, there are
multiple blood vessels in a net-like form.” Under the pressure of great stress
the vessels constrict. Then as the anxiety passes “the blood vessels dilate to
the point of rupture. The blood goes into the sweat glands.” As the sweat glands
are producing a lot of sweat, it pushes the blood to the surface - coming out
as droplets of blood mixed with sweat.
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My commentary
I must agree that was a hefty academic answer,
by Dr (Chief Medical Examiner of Rockland County, New York) I regards to the
sweating Blood of Jesus,
Now you may think I'm going to refute the doctors
answer, but I'm afraid I'm not that qualified to so refuting a dr with such
high Calibre being labeled as a (Chief Medical Examiner)
I'm no doctor, but I can refute the entire
verse lol.
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(These verses are Luke 22:43-44 “And there
appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an
agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of
blood falling down to the ground.” )
“But those verses are missing from some of
the oldest and best manuscripts of Luke's Gospel.
It turns out that the account in Luke about
Jesus sweating blood as he prays in the garden is missing from our oldest and
best manuscripts. scribes added that because there were debates in the second
and third centuries as to whether Jesus was fully human or not. These verses
were inserted to show he really was human and really did suffer.”
Pulpit Commentary
the oldest authorities omit these last two
verses (43, 44). Their omission in many of these ancient manuscripts was
probably due to mistaken reverence. The two oldest and most authoritative
translations, the Itala (Latin) and Peshito (Syriac), contain them, however, as
do the most important Fathers of the second century, Justin and Irenaeus. We
have, then, apart from the evidence of manuscripts, the testimony of the
earliest Christianity in Italy and Syria, Asia Minor and Gaul, to the
genuineness of these two famous verses. They are printed in the ordinary text
of the Revised English Version, with a side-note alluding to their absence in
some of the ancient authorities.
Bible gateway footnote
Luke 22:44 Many early manuscripts do not
have verses 43 and 44.
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"Luke 22:44 the passage about Jesus
sweating blood indeed it is not found in P75
A D type text Around around 300"
A D type text Around around 300"
Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations
of the New Testament
By Philip Wesley Comfort
By Philip Wesley Comfort
New American Bible (Catholic Comparative
New Testament)
Luke 22: [ 43 And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him. 44 He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.] Footnote: These verses, though very ancient, were probably not part of the original text of Lk. They are absent from the oldest papyrus manuscripts of Lk and from manuscripts of wide geographical distribution.
Luke 22: [ 43 And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him. 44 He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.] Footnote: These verses, though very ancient, were probably not part of the original text of Lk. They are absent from the oldest papyrus manuscripts of Lk and from manuscripts of wide geographical distribution.
The Good News Translation (Catholic
Comparative New Testament) places Luke 22:43-44 in the main body of text with a
footnote that says, Some manuscripts do not have verses 43-44.
The Revised Standard Version Catholic Bible
(Catholic Comparative New Testament) banished Luke 22:43-44 to the footnotes.
The passage is absent from the main body of text. The footnotes says, Other
ancient manuscripts add verses 43 and 44: 43 And there appeared to him an angel
from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more
earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down upon the
ground.
The New Revised Standard Version Catholic
Bible (Anglicized) (Catholic Comparative New Testament) places Luke 22:43-44 in
the main body of text with a footnote that says, Other ancient manuscripts lack
verses 43 and 44.
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In short, the passage of SWEATING BLOOD IN
LUKE 22:44 was a later addition, fabricated, Interpolated. The embarrassing part
is, this “Christian” Dr went through a hard time proving a false made up lie,
the SWEATING OF BLOOD. Where was his Holy Ghost out deceiving other Christian?.
