Welcome back to a new week on the Ask Pastor John podcast.

We have a full week of questions on the docket ready to go and we begin the week with a very

specific Bible question from Scott in Springfield, Illinois, although he sent it to us in clouded

and veiled terms.

Scott writes in to your Pastor John, I'm struggling with finding the purpose of Mark 14

verses 51 to 52.

I've asked some people around me and looked online but I can't seem to find an answer.

For what reason was this stated here, surely it was stated here for a reason, what is

that reason, Pastor John?

Well, nobody knows what we're talking about till we read it, right?

So let me put these two verses in context.

So here we are at Mark 14 and I'll read 46 following, they laid hands on Jesus and seized

him.

But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest

and caught off his ear and Jesus said to them, have you come out against a robber with swords

and clubs to capture me?

Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching and you did not seize me but the scriptures

must be fulfilled and they all left him and fled and then here come the two verses he's

asking about and a young man followed him with nothing but a linen cloth about his body

and they seized and that's the same word for Jesus being seized, I'll come back to that.

They seized him but he left the linen cloth and fled, that's the same word used for

the others who fled naked and he must know what is with this guy, who is he, why is he

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