Arrest of Jesus (Matthew 26:47; Luke 22:47; John 18:2). See on Mt and Jn.

51, 52. The young man who followed. The incident being peculiar to St. Mark, and a quite unimportant one, it is often supposed by modern commentators that the young man was the evangelist himself. Mark's mother certainly lived in Jerusalem (Acts 12:12). Other conjectures are St. John, James the Lord's brother, or a resident in the house where the last supper had been eaten.

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