LS.1.
Zechariah 13:7
LS.2.
Isaiah 53:12
LS.z1. These verses appear in Luke 22:43-44:
On the other hand, I can easily accept that the youth did see, by the light of a full or nearly full moon, bloody sweat rolling off Jesus' face. The bloody sweat phenomenon is rare, but has been documented medically.
LS.z2. Sometime after the vernal equinox, as the moon neared its full phase, Jerusalem religious authorities would announce the precise seven days of the Passover feast.
Please see the article by Rabbi Menachem Posner, staff editor at Chabad.org, "the world’s largest Jewish informational website."
Posner article
https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/495531/jewish/How-Does-the-Spring-Equinox-Relate-to-the-Timing-of-Passover.htm
If Jesus and the disciples, probably along with many other pilgrims, were going strictly by the moon, one can imagine that they saw the night of the full moon as the "real" Passover, as distinct from an "official" first Passover day possibly set by the Temple authorities.
But, if the Gethsemane scene occurred a night or two before the full moon, there still would have been plenty of light – assuming a clear night – by which Jesus' face could have been observed.
LS.zz1. Just as it is apparent that Matthew's Sermon on the Mount is drawn from a collection of the sayings of Jesus, it is quite plausible that John's "sermons" given by Jesus just before the crucifixion are drawn from collections of Christ's sayings to which that writer had access.
Zechariah 13:7
Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me, says All Powerful Jehovah: smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn my hand against the little ones.
LS.2.
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
LS.z1. These verses appear in Luke 22:43-44:
43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.The Bible scholar Bruce M. Metzger (2005) writes:
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.
These verses are absent from some of the oldest and best witnesses, including the majority of the Alexandrian manuscripts. It is striking that the earliest witnesses attesting the verses are three Church fathers – Justin, Irenaeus, and Hippolytus – each of whom uses the verses in order to counter Christological views that maintained that Jesus was not a full human who experienced the full range of human sufferings. It may well be that the verses were added to the text for just this reason, in opposition to those who held to a [heretical] docetic Christology.Though it is certainly possible that an angel appeared and comforted Jesus, one wonders where the information came from. Had the disciples seen an angel, would not they have been terrified, and similarly for the boy who was lurking nearby?
On the other hand, I can easily accept that the youth did see, by the light of a full or nearly full moon, bloody sweat rolling off Jesus' face. The bloody sweat phenomenon is rare, but has been documented medically.
LS.z2. Sometime after the vernal equinox, as the moon neared its full phase, Jerusalem religious authorities would announce the precise seven days of the Passover feast.
Please see the article by Rabbi Menachem Posner, staff editor at Chabad.org, "the world’s largest Jewish informational website."
Posner article
https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/495531/jewish/How-Does-the-Spring-Equinox-Relate-to-the-Timing-of-Passover.htm
If Jesus and the disciples, probably along with many other pilgrims, were going strictly by the moon, one can imagine that they saw the night of the full moon as the "real" Passover, as distinct from an "official" first Passover day possibly set by the Temple authorities.
But, if the Gethsemane scene occurred a night or two before the full moon, there still would have been plenty of light – assuming a clear night – by which Jesus' face could have been observed.
LS.zz1. Just as it is apparent that Matthew's Sermon on the Mount is drawn from a collection of the sayings of Jesus, it is quite plausible that John's "sermons" given by Jesus just before the crucifixion are drawn from collections of Christ's sayings to which that writer had access.
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