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Okay… hear me out…
The little guy running naked while Jesus is being arrested from the Gospel of Mark + the Beloved Disciple from the Gospel of John = Same guy.

Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about anything, I’m just a guy who sees some gay shit* in the Bible and unlike a lot of Christians, I am Intrigued instead of Appalled.

*Yes, there will be gay shit in this post eventually.

So both of these figures, interestingly, are generally seen as the respective authors humbly not identifying himself. But literally the only reason people think that is because both of these characters are unnamed. It's a huge speculation. The "titles" of the gospels (which I will be using here) were later additions based on early Christians' guesses of who the author was/who the unnamed guy was, but neither guess can be backed up in the texts themselves.

Mark’s Streaker appears in two whole verses following Jesus’ arrest in the garden: “A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth. They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked.” Mark 14:51-52


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In the Coptic Gospel of Thomas Jesus is pretty vocal about saying not wearing clothes will get us to the kingdom, so maybe that's part of it. Also, verse 22 is the transest shit...

Jesus saw some infants at the breast. He said to his disciples: These little ones at the breast are like those who enter into the kingdom. They said to him: If we then be children, shall we enter the kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper side as the lower; and when you make the male and the female into a single one, that the male be not male and the female female; when you make eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then shall you enter [the kingdom].

Love me some Gospel of Thomas. That’s a great verse. My favorite trans verse is 114, with “I will… make her male… for every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.” Sexist, but I love a shout out to the trans mascs.

Yeah, it's all very interesting. I wish there was more in the historical record in general about third-gender/transcendant people so we could make sense of it in that context, but alas, it's not to be. If I ever get a time machine I'm doing a heist on the library of Alexandria.

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