Mark 14:50

50 And they all abandoned 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 answered [and] said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me?

49 Every day I was with you in the temple [courts] teaching, and you did not arrest me! But [this has happened] in order that the scriptures would be fulfilled.

50 And they all abandoned him [and] fled.

51 And a certain young man was following him, clothed [only] in a linen cloth on [his] naked body. And they attempted to seize him,

52 but he left behind the linen cloth [and] fled naked.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("abandoned") has been translated as a finite verb