Maundy Thursday 9.50pm

Thursday
9:50 pm  

Loss of innocence

A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth.  They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked. (Mark 14: 51-52)

We don’t know who this young man was.  Some people think it was Mark himself – no other Evangelist mentions this trivial detail.  But that is what life is made up of to such a huge extent – trivial, inconsequential details.  But this young boy must have been petrified as his clothes were ripped from him and he fled for his life.  He had not seen anything like this.