An Unexpected Argument Against Jesus’ “Sweating Blood”

October 16, 2021 00:07:42
An Unexpected Argument Against Jesus’ “Sweating Blood”
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An Unexpected Argument Against Jesus’ “Sweating Blood”

Oct 16 2021 | 00:07:42

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In the previous post I mentioned that I first got interested in the textual problem of Luke 22:43-44 (“the bloody sweat”) when I was taking a graduate seminar at Princeton Theological Seminary, my first year in the doctoral program. The seminar was devoted (the entire semester) to the Greek exegesis (interpretation) of Luke. My fellow student, Mark Plunkett, presented a seminar paper in which he dealt with the passage. He was not at all interested in the textual question of whether vv. 43-44 were original. He was assuming that they were not, but it had nothing to do with his presentation. Read by Petra Ortiz

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