DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
A linen cloth. "They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked." He is never named, never explained, and never mentioned again.
Why it’s interesting
Two verses, no explanation — readers have guessed for centuries at who he was, from Mark himself to an echo of the prophet Amos, where the strong flee away naked. The text keeps its silence.
Scholarly consensus
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