Luke 22:44 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁴ And He became anguished as He prayed more fervently; even His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ And being in an agony [of mind], He prayed [all the] more earnestly and intently, and His sweat became like great clots of blood dropping down upon the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ He was in anguish and prayed even more earnestly. His sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ and so his sweat became like drops of blood, running down to the ground.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁴ And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Luke 22:44 Cross References

Luke 22:45

And when He got up from praying He went to His disciples and found them asleep, exhausted from grief.

John 12:27

“Now my heart is distressed; and what shall I say [i.e., to God]? ‘Father, bring me safely through this time.’ But, this is the reason I came [to earth]; to [go through] such a time.

Romans 8:32

God did not withhold His own Son [from dying], but offered Him up for all of us. [Since He did that], will He not, along with Jesus, freely give us everything [else] also?

Hebrews 5:7

During His life on earth Jesus offered up prayers and special requests with loud crying and tears to God, who was able to save Him from dying, and He was heard because of His [earnest] devotion [to God].