Mark 14:52

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

Mark 14:52 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:52

And he left the linen cloth
"In their hands", so the Persic version renders it; just as Joseph left his garment in the hands of his mistress, ( Genesis 39:12 ) ;

and fled from them naked;
to the house from whence he came. The Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, leave out the words "from them".

Mark 14:52 In-Context

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.

53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.

54 And Peter followed him from a distance, right inside, into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the officers and warming himself by the fire.

Footnotes

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