[incredulous joe]

Something that always gets me about this Gospel; what is with the young man who is dressed in a loin cloth who runs off naked after being grabbed.

I’ve heard a couple theories about who this may be.

Got any feedback? It is so odd to place this into the story for no apparent reason. I think tht I have heard that the young man was the Gospel writer, that it was St. John??

Any ideas? Or simply nothing deeper than what it appears to be.

[Coleus]

I heard it was St. Luke. St. John was a man and at the Crucifixion.

[Salvation]

I’ve always understood that it was St. John. Mark’s Gospel says “a young man”. The young man present would have been St. John. He went home, got clothes and rejoined Christ.

Another thing that is not mentioned in Mark’s Gospel is that Jesus turned around and looked at Peter after his denials. So Christ and Peter must have been in hearing range of each other.