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Editions differ on whether Luke’s account of Gethsemane includes the appearance of a strengthening angel and the description of sweat like great drops of blood.
Editions differ on whether John 5 contains the explanation that an angel went down at a certain season and troubled the water, and that the first to step in was healed.
Messenger figures, including the angel of the LORD.
The resurrection accounts, their differences in participants, timing and location, and the textual questions bearing on them.
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.
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam.
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
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