Prayers not heard?

This morning Anonymous left the following comment on my blog under the title
"Wrestling with God":

...'In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications,
with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and
he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a Son, He learned
obedience through the things He suffered...'..
Its interesting how his prayers were heard, but yet they were not
answered.....in the flesh.... "

As I consider this comment I would like to "suggest" that Jesus''
prayers were indeed answered. If you read the account in Hebrews 5:7, the
text does say that "he was heard in that he feared." Anonymous chose to use
the word "reverence," which is within the range of meaning but the element
of "fear" or "fearful" is also in the range of meaning. Was Jesus "afraid?"
Not in the normal sense of the word. But if you look at the circumstances
surrounding his prayer you will find that Jesus was in a predicament that
appeared to bring death prematurely before he could go to the cross. In Luke
22:44, the Scriptures read, "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."
Luke the physician is reporting from a doctoral perspective that
Jesus, on the night before he would suffer the cross, is literally bleeding
to death. There is a medical term for this phenomenon that describes the
capillaries bursting during times of great stress and duress, which can lead
to death. As Jesus experienced this loss of blood prior to the cross, he
began to pray to his father that this cup would pass from him, but not his
will, but his father's will be done. Jesus knew he was to go to the cross,
but he was bleeding to death in the garden. It is possible he was praying
that the cup of suffering in the garden, where he was bleeding to death,
pass from him, so that he could indeed go to the cross. His prayers would
then have been answered...in the flesh.