Question: Which gospel records the incident of a naked young man running from soldiers at the time of Jesus' betrayal and arrest?
Answer: Mark. (Mark 14:51-52)
Comments: The Gospel of Mark is the only canonical gospel which includes the mysterious tidbit that a young man fled from the scene of Jesus' arrest.
A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. (Mark 14:51, NASB)
Some pose that the "young man" in question is the evangelist himself. In Word Meanings in the New Testament, Ralph H. Earle (1908-1995) comments, “This brief incident is found only in this Gospel. It might be Mark’s way of saying, ‘I was there.’ If the Last Supper took place in the home of John Mark’s mother (cf. Acts 12:12), Judas Iscariot may have returned there first to betray Jesus. We can then understand how John Mark would be roused, perhaps grab a sheet to cover his body, and rush to [Gethsemane] to warn Jesus.”
Note: This rendering of St. Mark was done by Donatello (1386-1466). Donatello's Saint Mark (1411-1413) is a marble statue that stands 7'9" in an exterior niche of the Orsanmichele church in Florence
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