Mark 14:51 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Mark 14:51 f. The Young Man who Fled Naked. A curious little incident peculiar to Mk. Is it a popular addition to the story, recalling Genesis 39:12 (so HNT), or is it a fulfilment of Amos 2:16 (so Loisy)? It is more naturally interpreted as a personal experience of the evangelist, as his signature to his portrait of Jesus.

Mark 14:51

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: