Read those verses with an open mind. Read the verses before it or after it if you want to understand its contrxt. Gee, read the entire chapter if you want to.
But the passage is unrelated at all to the earlier or later verse. It stands out as a sore thumb, like a stub remnants of heavy editing. What remains though sounds like a Jesus gay scandal. A young man (reminds one of a sakristan) was with Jesus (while all the disciples were away. And the one was only wearing a linen underwear that was stripper away by thugs. He ran away stark naked! Who was that boy? Were those thugs anti-gay bigots harassing Jesus or paparazzi trying to catch a scandalous photo of Jesus?
What do you think a out this most mysterious passage of Mark?
But the passage is unrelated at all to the earlier or later verse. It stands out as a sore thumb, like a stub remnants of heavy editing. What remains though sounds like a Jesus gay scandal. A young man (reminds one of a sakristan) was with Jesus (while all the disciples were away. And the one was only wearing a linen underwear that was stripper away by thugs. He ran away stark naked! Who was that boy? Were those thugs anti-gay bigots harassing Jesus or paparazzi trying to catch a scandalous photo of Jesus?
What do you think a out this most mysterious passage of Mark?