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Mark 14:51-52

  • 19-04-2011 4:29pm
    #1
    Asry
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    Hello there, people :) I've been around a while but on boards other than this one.

    I was wondering if anyone could offer an interpretation of this passage? I find it really interesting :)


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  • #2
    Seaneh
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    A young man was following following Jesus after the mob came and arrested him, and the men who had captured Jesus tried to arrest him, get got free, his loin cloth fell off and he did a legger naked...

    What ecactly is really interesting about it?


  • #3
    philologos
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    Some people claim that Jesus had a homosexual relationship with this man. It is a stretch at best.


  • #4
    CIE
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    A young man was following following Jesus after the mob came and arrested him, and the men who had captured Jesus tried to arrest him, get got free, his loin cloth fell off and he did a legger naked...

    What e(x)actly is really interesting about it?
    The verse doesn't say "loin cloth". "Sindona" refers to a linen cloth, and the word "peribeblemenos" means that it was wrapped around him, as around the whole body.

    I suppose the interesting thing about the verse could be that this is the only mention of this event in the whole Bible. Seems to illustrate the violence of the men that took Jesus and what anyone who followed him at that time were in for.


  • #5
    Asry
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    I just find it evocative. And no, I don't read it as Jesus having a homosexual relationship, Jakkass. What would that imply? That Jesus was having sex instead of praying in Gethsemane? Surely not. :rolleyes:

    Does 'sindona' not refer to grave clothes? Is this a prefiguring of the death of Christ? I just wonder what it must mean symbolically because it's a very odd place to have a naked man, so it must mean something else, something not as obvious? And who was he anyway? All the other disciples are mentioned by name, so why not him? If he wasn't a disciple, then what was he doing in the garden at night, following Jesus?


  • #6
    PDN
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    CIE wrote: »
    The verse doesn't say "loin cloth". "Sindona" refers to a linen cloth, and the word "peribeblemenos" means that it was wrapped around him, as around the whole body.

    I suppose the interesting thing about the verse could be that this is the only mention of this event in the whole Bible. Seems to illustrate the violence of the men that took Jesus and what anyone who followed him at that time were in for.

    One possible reason why it is mentioned in Mark, but not elsewhere, could be that the young man was Mark himself. There is an old tradition to that effect.


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  • #7
    Asry
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    PDN wrote: »
    One possible reason why it is mentioned in Mark, but not elsewhere, could be that the young man was Mark himself. There is an old tradition to that effect.

    That's cool :) I never thought of that. I'll have to go back and read it again, the entire set piece I mean, with that in mind. Thank you :)


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