Ben
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Post by Ben on Feb 14, 2015 17:47:07 GMT
Mark 14:51-52 -- "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: And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked."
What is the significance of these two verses? Does it have to do with the linen cloth?
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Post by Lee on Feb 15, 2015 17:10:29 GMT
51. The incident of “the young man who fled naked” would seem to be quite without point or interest unless we are to understand that it refers to Mark himself, and therefore supplies an indication of authorship by an eye-witness actually concerned in the events recorded.
(1917). The Christadelphian, 54(electronic ed.), 452.
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Post by Lee on Feb 17, 2015 2:52:05 GMT
These two verses, coming in Mark’s gospel only, are generally believed to be about the author himself. The argument usually advanced—that none but the young man himself could have supplied this information—is not as watertight as it is often deemed to be. Even so, the conclusion is probably correct. Else why should this insertion be made in the narrative at all, for it is really aside from the main story of the sufferings of Christ? The author’s own personal interest in this incident may, perhaps, furnish the best explanation.
The mention of a “linen cloth” may help to supply a link of a sort. Linen was the normal wear of the priests, and John Mark is known to have been related to Barnabas who was a Levite (Col. 4:10; Acts 4:36).
1967 Christadelphian, 104(electronic ed.), 389.
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Post by Ben on Feb 20, 2015 3:15:50 GMT
Interesting, I would not have ever seen it in that way.
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