MARK 14:52 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.”
He fled naked, leaving his garment behind — the naked flight is the ultimate abandonment — even the garment is left behind rather than risk arrest. The nakedness echoes the shame of the Fall (Genesis 3:7) and foreshadows the shame that will be imposed on Jesus (stripped and mocked, 15:17, 20). The young man who fled naked will become the young man in white sitting in the empty tomb (16:5) if the traditional identification is correct.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:52
After that our Lord had prayed three times, and had obtained by His prayers that the fear of the Apostles should be amended by future repentance, He, being tranquil as to His Passion, goes to His persecutors, concerning the coming of whom the Evangelist says, 'And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas Iscariot, on of the twelve.'
This is not put without reason, but to the greater conviction of the traitor, since though he was of the chief company amongst the disciples, he turned himself to furious enmity against our Lord.
For he who despairs of help from God, has recourse to the power of the world.
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