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The events in this section, like those in the preceding section, happened at night in the olive grove called Gethsemane.
At the end of 14:42, Jesus told his disciples that the one who would betray him was coming. At the beginning of this section in 14:43, Judas, the betrayer, arrived. He came with a crowd of armed men that the Jewish religious leaders had sent. Judas betrayed Jesus by kissing him. Then the crowd of men arrested Jesus and the disciples fled. As one of them was running away, some people grabbed the linen cloth he had wrapped around himself. He left the cloth in their hands and ran away naked.
In this section Mark referred back to things that happened before the crowd came to arrest Jesus. Before Judas came with the crowd, he went to the chief priests, teachers of the law, and elders. He told them that he would betray Jesus to them. They agreed to send armed men with him to arrest Jesus. These men probably would not recognize which man was Jesus. Judas told them that he would kiss Jesus to show them the man whom they should arrest. Tell about these events in a way that will help people understand why that group of men arrived with Judas.
It is good to translate this section before you decide on a heading for it.
Here are some other possible headings for this section:
The betrayal and arrest of Jesus
Jesus is captured
There are parallel passages for this section in Matthew 26:47–56, Luke 22:47–53, and John 18:3.
Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
¶ Then all Jesus’ disciples deserted him and fled.
¶ Then all of his followers abandoned him and ran away.
This verse says that Jesus’ disciples abandoned him and ran away. In Mark 14:27, Jesus himself predicted that this would happen. This event also fulfilled Zechariah 13:7 in the Old Testament. It was another example of how the events that were happening fulfilled Scripture, as Jesus said in 14:49c.
Then: The Greek conjunction that the BSB translates as Then here introduces the next event. Connect this verse with 14:49 in a way that is natural in your language.
everyone deserted Him and fled: As Jesus finished speaking in 14:49, his followers realized that he was going to allow the crowd to arrest him. They feared that they would also be arrested, so they abandoned him and ran away.
everyone: The word everyone refers to Jesus’ disciples. It does not include Judas, who betrayed Jesus, or the crowd who arrested him.
deserted Him: The phrase deserted Him means “abandoned him,” “left him without support.”
fled: The word fled indicates that the disciples “ran away.” Jesus’ disciples fled because they were afraid that the crowd would seize and arrest them, too.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
ἔφυγον πάντες
fled all
Mark is using the adjective all as a noun to mean all the disciples. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: [all of the disciples fled]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.