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Silly Bible question....naked guy?

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Christy4Christ

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Can anyone tell me who this naked man is and what he has to do with this?


Mark14:48-53
And Jesus said to them, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled." And they all forsook him, and fled.And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body; and they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked. And they led Jesus to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes were assembled.
 

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Tradition holds that the Upper Room where the first Eucharist was celebrated was in John Mark's mother's home, where he lived with her. It's thought that this was his way of writing himself into the Gospel account, the one occasion where he actually played a role during Jesus's life. (As reported in Acts, he later connected up with Paul and Barnabas and was a co-missionary with them.)

FWIW, the word translated "naked" is, IIRC, literally "unclad" -- he may have had on a loincloth rather than being strictly naked, but lost his outer garment as he fled from capture.
 
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