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Gill's Exposition
And the chief priests, and all the council,.... Especially the former, who were of all most busy and active in this matter:
sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; on which they were…
See the notes at Mat 26:47-57. Mar 14:45 Master, Master - As if expressing great joy that he had found him again. Mar 14:51 A certain young man - Who this was we have no means of determining, but it…
Adam Clarke
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked - It has often been intimated, by the inhabitants of India, that a European in strait clothes must be in great danger when his clothes take fire.…
We have here the seizing of our Lord Jesus by the officers of the chief priests. This was what his enemies had long aimed at, they had often sent to take him; but he had escaped out of their hands,…
Cambridge Bible
naked This need not imply that he was absolutely naked. It may mean, like the Latin nudus, "with only the underrobe on." Comp. 1Sa 19:24; Joh 21:7; Virg. Georg. i. 299.