The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 039 (June 23, 2025)

Mark’s Gospel contains a very strange story about a young man who ran away naked on the night that Jesus was arrested.

It’s a dramatic and embarrassing incident.
Mark mentions this incident, but he doesn’t tell us who the man was.

So who was he? Can we deduce anything about him from the available evidence? And is there a special reason Mark never mentions his name?

In this episode, Jimmy Akin reveals the surprising answers to these questions.

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:25 – Intro
00:59 – 1 The Story
01:25 – 2 Was it Mark?
02:47 – 3 A Curious Stranger?
04:07 – 4 Protective Anonymity
06:02 – 5 Someone we know?
07:33 –6 The ideal candidate?
09:03 – Closing/Outro
09:57 – End