But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
All leaving him, fled away. Yet Peter and another soon followed after at a distance. St. Mark says (xiv. 51,) that a young man followed with nothing on but a linen cloth. Perhaps it was some one that upon the noise came hastily out of the neighbourhood; and when they catched hold on him, fled away naked. It is not known who he was. (Witham)
