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Who was the young man who fled (14:51-52)?

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Mark doesn't say. "A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself over his naked body. The young men grabbed him" (14:51), "but he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked" (14:52). Mark tells it straight after "They all left him, and fled" (14:50). Only Mark tells of him: Matthew, Luke and John tell of the arrest without him (Matthew 26:47-56; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:1-12). Mark doesn't name him or say why he followed, and these notes don't either.

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“They all left him, and fled. A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, but he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.”
Mark 14:50-52 · World English Bible

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Mark 14: Not what I desire

One Greek verb runs through this chapter seven times: Judas's deliver and Jesus's "one of you will betray me" (14:18). It is the verb Jesus had used of himself, "handed over" (9:31). And only Mark says the rooster would crow twice (14:30).

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