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Who Is That Mysterious Naked Man?

Who Is That Mysterious Naked Man?

An unnamed and scantily-clad young man appears at the oddest of moments in the canon gospels; could a long-suppressed "secret gospel" reveal an occult relationship with Jesus himself?

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Jeremy Daw
Nov 28, 2023
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This detail of a painting by Antonio da Coreggio depicts the infamous and confounding “naked fugitive” — or “the Gethsemane streaker,” if you prefer — of the gospel of Mark. Who was he?

By the time Christ and his disciples had made it to the garden of Gethsemane, located on the western slopes of the Mount of Olives, they already knew that the end was nea…

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