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Matthew 26:56

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56

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

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Verse 56. All leaving him, fled away. Yet Peter and another soon followed after at a distance. Saint Mark says (14:51,) 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.

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