Notably, the Greek word is generally translated as "youth", such that Mark could have been a teenager.
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'''50''' And they all forsook him, and fled.
'''50''' And they all forsook him, and fled.
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'''51''' And there followed him a certain young man,<ref>This was most likely Mark himself, as authors of that time humbly (and humorously) referred to themselves anonymously like this. The "Expanded Bible" translation includes in brackets for this verse, "perhaps the author Mark himself."</ref> having a linen cloth cast about ''his'' naked ''body''; and the young men laid hold on him:
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'''51''' And there followed him a certain young man,<ref>This was most likely Mark himself, as authors of that time humbly (and humorously) referred to themselves anonymously like this. The "Expanded Bible" translation includes in brackets for this verse, "perhaps the author Mark himself." Notably, the Greek word is generally translated as "youth", such that Mark could have been a teenager.</ref> having a linen cloth cast about ''his'' naked ''body''; and the young men laid hold on him:
'''52''' And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
'''52''' And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.