Mark 14:51 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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: A certain young man - Probably raised from his sleep by the noise which the rabble made who came to apprehend Jesus, having wrapped the sheet or some of the bed-clothing about him, became thereby the more conspicuous: on his appearing, he was seized; but as they had no way of holding him, but only by the cloth which was wrapped round him, he disengaged himself from that, and so escaped out of their hands. This circumstance is not related by any other of the evangelists.