Bloody Sweat

A rare condition, also called hemohydrosis, that may be caused by small blood vessels bleeding into the sweat glands. It occurs only in extreme emotional stress. Notably, the Bible says that when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, before his betrayal, he had bloody sweat: "In His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground" (Luke 22:44). Some translations suggest Jesus actually sweated blood. But, the Greek text is only making a comparison. That is, sweat poured off of Jesus “as though he were bleeding.” This is an appropriate analogy for Luke, a physician, to have mad e.