Luke 22:44

Luke 22:44 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Context of Luke 22:44

42saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” 43[Now an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him. And being in agony, He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground]. 45When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow, 46and He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you do not come into temptation.”

Luke 22:44 word by word

καὶ γενόμενος ἐν ἀγωνίᾳ ἐκτενέστερον προσηύχετο. καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἱδρὼς αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ θρόμβοι αἵματος καταβαίνοντες ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.]]Read the interlinear

• beingγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• in agonyἀγωνίαagōnia · a struggleG74
• He was prayingπροσεύχομαιproseuchomai · to prayG4336
• very ferventlyἐκτενήςektenēs · ferventG1618
• and His sweatἱδρώςhidros · sweatG2402
• likeὡσείhōsei · like/as/aboutG5616
• dropsθρόμβοςthrombos · dropG2361
• of bloodαἷμαaima · bloodG129
• fallingκαταβαίνωkatabainō · to come/go downG2597
• upon the groundγῆgē · earth: soilG1093

Cross-references for Luke 22:44

• Genesis 32:24Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my help are the words of my groaning.
• Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the Lord; And He reached down to me and heard my cry.
• Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mud and do not let me sink; May I be rescued from those who hate me, and from the depths of water.
• Psalms 88:1Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
• Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I have cried to You, Lord.
• Psalms 143:6I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You, like a weary land. Selah
• Lamentations 1:12“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was inflicted on me, With which the Lord tormented me on the day of His fierce anger.
• Lamentations 3:53They have silenced me in the pit And have thrown stones on me.
• Jonah 2:2and he said, “I called out of my distress to the Lord, And He answered me. I called for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.
• John 12:27“Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
• Hebrews 5:7In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior.
• Isaiah 53:10But the Lord desired To crush Him, causing Him grief; If He renders Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
• Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Commentaries on Luke 22:44

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 44Prayed more earnestly - With greater emphasis and earnestness than usual, with strong crying and tears, Hebrews 5:7; the reason given for which is, that he was in an agony. Kypke well observes, Vox summum animi angorem et dolorem indicat; et idem est, quod , Matthew 26:37; Mark 14:34. "The word (agony) points out the utmost anguish and grief of soul, and is of the same import with in Matthew and Mark." See the note on Matthew 26:37. Drops of blood - See…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 39-46Verses 39-46 See the Luke 22:43 Strengthening him - His human nature, to sustain the great burden that was upon his soul. Some have supposed from this that he was not divine as well as human; for if he was “God,” how could an angel give any strength or comfort? and why did not the divine nature “alone” sustain the human? But the fact that he was “divine” does not affect the case at all. It might be asked with the same propriety, If he was, as all admit…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 39-46Verses 39-46 Every description which the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict, proves the tremendous nature of the assault, and the perfect foreknowledge of its terrors possessed by the meek and lowly Jesus. Here are three things not in the other evangelists. 1. When Christ was in his agony, there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. It was a part of his humiliation that he was thus…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 44His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground: The text does not say that Jesus sweated blood, as people often think. It says that his sweat fell to the ground like blood. This probably means that, in his agony, he was sweating very heavily.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 39-4639. as ... wont--(See Joh 18:2).Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 22:44

• Gethsemane
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Peter
• Prayer
• Sorrow
• Sweat

In the dictionaries

• Accomplish
• Agony
• Bloody sweat
• Cast
• Earnestly
• Gethsemane
• Humiliation of Christ
• Peter
• Reckon
• Armenian Versions, of the Bible

Commentaries on Luke 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings