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Bible Study Who was this person?
- Thread starter Angel
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Dear Sister Angel, there is no certainty as to the identity of the young naked man of Mark 14:52, but here are some ideas presented by different commentaries.
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/mark/14-51.htm
This may be of help when you’re searching for such information, and that is to Google your question such as I did with this one: “Who was the naked young man from Mark 14:52?”, and it produced the Bible Hub commentaries above. At least this method gets me heading in the right direction many times.
Dear Sister Angel, there is no certainty as to the identity of the young naked man of Mark 14:52, but here are some ideas presented by different commentaries.
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/mark/14-51.htm
This may be of help when you’re searching for such information, and that is to Google your question such as I did with this one: “Who was the naked young man from Mark 14:52?”, and it produced the Bible Hub commentaries above. At least this method gets me heading in the right direction many times.
Chopper
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It is my opinion that this man lived in a house nearby the garden. He perhaps was the owner of the garden. The man was probably asleep, and the commotion raised up by the Roman Soldiers as they progress to arrest Jesus, woke this man up. Being startled by such a noise, went to the garden in just his linen sleep attire to see what was happening. He was probably not a Disciple.
Amos 2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Mark 14: 51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: 52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
Amos may give us a clue as to who this young man was as being a soldier as in Mark 14:51 this young man laid hold on him, which IMO I believe it reads, the young man laid hold on Jesus, but possibly virtue might have gone out of Jesus like it did with the woman with the issue of blood, and this young man being a soldier fled in fear and for some reason the linen cloth he was wearing fell off as he was fleeing.
Mark 14: 51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: 52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
Amos may give us a clue as to who this young man was as being a soldier as in Mark 14:51 this young man laid hold on him, which IMO I believe it reads, the young man laid hold on Jesus, but possibly virtue might have gone out of Jesus like it did with the woman with the issue of blood, and this young man being a soldier fled in fear and for some reason the linen cloth he was wearing fell off as he was fleeing.
Sinthesis
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Mar 14:50 - And they all forsook him, and fled.
Mar 14:51 ¶ And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mar 14:52 - And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
Mar 14:51 ¶ And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mar 14:52 - And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
Saint Mark is describing himself as a young boy witnessing the events in person, and metaphorically illustrating the shame(nakedness) he assumed when abandoning Jesus(and therefore the righteousness given him through his association with Jesus, symbolized by his linen garment) just like all the disciples.
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Angel,
When I first read Mk 14:50-52 the Apostle John came to mind.
Joh 13:23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Joh 21:20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple (John?) whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
http://www.gotquestions.org/disciple-whom-Jesus-loved.html
Angel,
When I first read Mk 14:50-52 the Apostle John came to mind.
Joh 13:23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Joh 21:20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple (John?) whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
http://www.gotquestions.org/disciple-whom-Jesus-loved.html
dianegcook
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I have the same thought process in my study Bible..
Dear Sister Angel, there is no certainty as to the identity of the young naked man of Mark 14:52, but here are some ideas presented by different commentaries.
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/mark/14-51.htm
This may be of help when you’re searching for such information, and that is to Google your question such as I did with this one: “Who was the naked young man from Mark 14:52?”, and it produced the Bible Hub commentaries above. At least this method gets me heading in the right direction many times.
The Lord had returned to Bethany each preceding night of that week...
Because Lazarus would be looking out...
The linen robe, betokening his social position....
And especially because he was wanted....
The chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death...John 12:10
So I would say, probably Lazarus.
dianegcook
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Malachi
Member
That is the general consensus, and "young man" would be more appropriate.
Sinthesis
Member
It's down to cultural differences. Today we don't necessarily consider everyone who has had their Bar Mitzvah to be a man. He was probably a young teenager.
dianegcook
Member
Question..
Why would they lay hold of Mark?
No other disciples were targets..
They were not arrested...
Sinthesis
Member
Mark, being younger, may have seemed easy pickings among Jesus' followers in the commotion of the ear violence, before Jesus suggested His followers be allowed to scatter instead of being arrested.
Regardless, I see Mark 14:51,52 as a parenthesis describing Mark's own participation in Mark 14:50, as either figuratively, literally, or both, being stripped of his dignity as he abandoned his Messiah.
Jhn 18:7 - Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jhn 18:8 - Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
Jhn 18:9 - That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
Jhn 18:8 - Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
Jhn 18:9 - That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
Regardless, I see Mark 14:51,52 as a parenthesis describing Mark's own participation in Mark 14:50, as either figuratively, literally, or both, being stripped of his dignity as he abandoned his Messiah.
Malachi
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Had all the disciples not fled, they would all have been taken captive. So Mark was probably the straggler.
dianegcook
Member
Thanks for your reply,
Very probable..
dianegcook
Member
Thanks Malachi for your reply, also probable..