What did the crucifixion mean for Jesus as a flesh-and-blood human being?

It was no hyperbole when Jesus told the disciples in the garden of Gethsemane that His distress was so severe that it had brought Him to the very brink of death. The agony He bore in the garden was literally sufficient to kill Him—and may well have done so if God were not preserving Him for another means of death. Luke records that “His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). That describes a rare but well-documented malady known as hematidrosis that sometimes occurs under heavy emotional distress. Subcutaneous capillaries burst under stress and the blood mingles with one’s perspiration, exiting through the sweat glands. And the physical agony would become unspeakably worse.