Luke 22:44
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.
Cross-references
Lamentations 1:12 asks if any sorrow compares—Jesus' agony in Gethsemane embodies that unparalleled anguish.
Hebrews 5:7 describes Jesus praying with loud cries and tears—Luke 22:44 shows that agony as sweat like blood.
John 12:27 reveals Jesus' troubled soul—Luke 22:44 shows that trouble intensified into bloody sweat.
Isaiah 53:10 prophesies the Lord crushing the servant—Luke 22:44 shows Jesus beginning that crushing in anguish.
Psalm 143:7 echoes a desperate cry as the spirit fails—Jesus' blood-like sweat mirrors that plea from the brink of death.
Psalm 88:15 describes being afflicted and suffering God's terrors — a profound lament echoing Jesus' sense of abandonment.
Matthew 26:37 gives the parallel account of Jesus being sorrowful and very heavy — the same Gethsemane event as Luke's agony.
Mark 14:33 records Jesus' amazement and heaviness — the same Gethsemane scene of distress and prayer.
Psalm 55:5 describes fear, trembling, and horror overwhelming the psalmist — exactly the emotions Jesus felt in Gethsemane.
Psalm 22:14 prophetically describes the Messiah's physical agony — 'poured out like water' mirrors Jesus' sweat like blood.
Psalm 130:1 cries 'out of the depths'—a fitting expression for Jesus' profound anguish in Gethsemane.
Psalm 88:1-18 laments unrelieved darkness—mirroring Jesus' sorrow unto death, yet Jesus submits to the Father's will.
Genesis 32:24-28 recounts Jacob wrestling with God all night—a typological struggle that prefigures Jesus' agonizing prayer in Gethsemane.
Lamentations 3:53-56 cries from the pit—Jesus' sweat like blood is a cry from the depths of anguish.
Romans 8:26 describes the Spirit interceding with groanings too deep for words — echoing Jesus' wordless agony in prayer.
Psalm 69:14-18 pleads for rescue from deep waters—a vivid parallel to Jesus' desperate prayer to be spared the cup.
Romans 8:32 states God did not spare his Son—Luke 22:44 reveals the cost in Jesus' agony.
2 Corinthians 13:4 notes Christ was crucified in weakness — reflecting the weakness shown in his Gethsemane agony.