As Good Friday approaches I can't help to think about the days, hours and minutes before Jesus would face his ultimate sacrafice.
After he had "The Last Supper" with the closest people in his life he stole away in prayer.
This wasn't just a regular prayer. This was heavy duty.
The verse above states that being in an agony he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground!
 I have read this before and thought, Wow, What great symbolism Luke used.
Yesterday I came to the knowledge that when a person is experiencing high anxiety/ extreme agony, that person's blood vessels can burst open and actual blood can secrete through their sweat glands. That blew me away!
I believe that Jesus Christ prayed this hard in the last hours of his life. I now look at this verse differently. It leaves me in Awe.
To read and hear in the preached word that Jesus agonized over what was about to happen is one thing.
I think we think that his agony was on a spiritual level. At least that thought provoked my mind at times. Jesus is the son of God, how did he feel what i feel today? How easy it is to forget that Jesus, at one point in time, was flesh like you and me, when he is in fact God!
To actually come to understand that his agony that night resulted in blood lets me know again that My Jesus, In all his Glory was truly human. He could have played the Royalty card in prayer and on the Cross. But he didn't. At that moment, when he agonized he wasn't thinking of where he came from, or who he was in terms of God. He was totally committed to what he came to do. If he wasn't committed he wouldn't have agonized.
He agonized more than i have ever heard of anyone agonizing.
I know i have never sweat blood in prayer or know of anyone that has.
This verse helps me come to grips that the sacrafice of Jesus wasn't just the son of God (in all his Glory) dying as flesh on the cross but rather, Jesus as man (flesh like you and me) dying on the cross as the son of God. It was the biggest committment i will never have to make. And for this I am beyond Grateful!