44 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.

Other Translations of Luke 22:44

New International Version

44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.Many early manuscripts do not have verses 43 and 44.

English Standard Version

44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.Some manuscripts omit verses 43 and 44

The Message

44 He prayed on all the harder. Sweat, wrung from him like drops of blood, poured off his face.

New King James Version

44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

New Living Translation

44 He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 22:44

Commentary on Luke 22:39-46

(Read Luke 22:39-46)

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 strengthened by a ministering spirit. 2. Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Prayer, though never out of season, is in a special manner seasonable when we are in an agony. 3. In this agony his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down. This showed the travail of his soul. We should pray also to be enabled to resist unto the shedding of our blood, striving against sin, if ever called to it. When next you dwell in imagination upon the delights of some favourite sin, think of its effects as you behold them here! See its fearful effects in the garden of Gethsemane, and desire, by the help of God, deeply to hate and to forsake that enemy, to ransom sinners from whom the Redeemer prayed, agonized, and bled.