"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."
This is the only time the word AGONY is used in the Bible. It is used when the Lord Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane. The word agony speaks of a contest. In the Greek language, the agon was a wrestling match. Jesus was wrestling, not with God the Father or with Satan, but with His own humanity. It was his sinless holy humanity vs. His divine love.
I'm glad that love paid the price in dark Gethsemane.
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Found this comment from Russell M. Nelson
“The word Gethsemane comes from two Hebrew roots: gath, meaning “press,” and shemen, meaning “oil,” especially that of the olive.
“There olives had been pressed under the weight of great stone wheels to squeeze precious oil from the olives. So the Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane was literally pressed under the weight of the sins of the world. He sweated great drops of blood—his life’s ‘oil’—which issued from every pore.” (“Why This Holy Land?” Ensign, Dec. 1989, 17–18)
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