Mark 14:50

50 And they all forsook him and fled.

Mark 14:50 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:50

And they all forsook him and fled.
] That is, his disciples, as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read; and who seem to have transcribed it from Matthew, and lest it should be thought, that the multitude whom Christ addressed, were intended.

Mark 14:50 In-Context

48 And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not, but it is this way that the scriptures might be fulfilled.

50 And they all forsook him and fled.

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.