Dr. Buswell said, Extremely profuse perspiration such as Luke described is characteristic of a state of shock in which the sufferer is in imminent danger of collapse and even death…Our Lord Jesus Christ, finding Himself in this physical state of extreme shock, prayed for deliverance from death in the garden, in order that He might accomplish His purpose on the cross (Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, A Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion, Zondervan, 1971, part III, p.