Mark 14:52 — Meaning and Application

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“And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.”

Mark 14:52

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And they all forsook him, and fled.

And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about {his} naked {body}; and the young men laid hold on him:

And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.

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Mark 14:1

"After two days was {the feast of} the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put {him} to death."

Mark 14:2

"But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar of the people."

Mark 14:3

"And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured {it} on his head. {spikenard: or, pure nard, or, liquid nard}"

Mark 14:4

"And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?"

Mark 14:5

"For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her."

Mark 14:6

"And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me."

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