The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:45-46
He found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation . The events of the past evening; the long excitement stirred up by listening to such words as their Master had been speaking to them during the sad hours of the Last Supper; the sure consciousness of coming sorrow; then the walk through the silent city:—all predisposed them to sleep. Commentators are never weary with pressing these excuses for the slumber of the eleven at that... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:44
And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground . Some (for instance, Theophylact) understand this "as it were" to signify that the expression, "drops of blood," was simply parabolic; but it is far better to understand the words in their literal sense, as our Church does when it prays, "By thine agony and bloody sweat." Athanasius even goes so far as to pronounce a ban upon those who deny this sweat of blood. Commentators give instances of this blood-sweat... read more