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Mark (alone among the evangelists) then relates that there was a young man who was a follower (Ancient Greek: τις συνηκολουθει αυτω, tis synēkolouthei autō) of Jesus, who was wearing "nothing but a linen garment"; he was seized by the crowd, [26] and he left his clothes behind and fled away naked (see also Naked fugitive).
Regardless of any necessity, Judas is held responsible for his act (Mark 14:21; Luke 22:22; Matt 26:24). [ 85 ] In his 1965 book The Passover Plot , British New Testament scholar Hugh J. Schonfield suggests that the crucifixion of Christ was a conscious re-enactment of Biblical prophecy and that Judas acted with the full knowledge and consent ...
The words attributed to Jesus on the bread and wine during the Last Supper (found in Mark 14:22–25 and 1 Corinthians 11:23–26 (Paul), compare to John 6:51–58) and his prohibition on divorce (found in Mark 10:11–12, Luke 16:18 (attributed to Q), and 1 Corinthians 7:10–11 (Paul)) are examples of sayings that are multiply attested.
But this could mean that Mark is the common source of the other two (priority), or that it derives from both (posteriority), or even that it is an intermediary in transmission from one to the other—in other words, many such arguments can support both Marcan priority and its rivals. [26]
Sometimes the exactness in wording is striking, for example, Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13, [26] (27 and 28 Greek words respectively); Matthew 7:7–8 and Luke 11:9–10, [27] (24 Greek words each). There is sometimes commonality in order between the two, for example the Sermon on the Plain and Sermon on the Mount .
Antonio da Correggio, The Betrayal of Christ, with a soldier in pursuit of Mark the Evangelist, c. 1522. The naked fugitive (or naked runaway or naked youth) is an unidentified figure mentioned briefly in the Gospel of Mark, immediately after the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and the fleeing of all his disciples:
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Only Mark gives healing commands of Jesus in the (presumably original) Aramaic: Talitha koum, [103] Ephphatha. [104] See Aramaic of Jesus. Only place in the New Testament where Jesus is referred to as "the son of Mary". [105] Mark is the only gospel where Jesus himself is called a carpenter; [105] in Matthew he is called a carpenter's son. [106]