Mark 3:21

Well upon hearing this His family came to apprehend Him, because they were saying, “He is out of his mind!”

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

In Context

20Then they went into a house; and again a multitude gathered, so that they were not even able to eat bread.

22Then some scribes who had come down from Jerusalem started saying, “He has Beelzebul,” and “It is by the ruler of the demons that he casts out demons.”

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Cross References

Mark 3:31Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him.

John 10:20Many of them were saying: “He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to him?”

2 Corinthians 5:13If we are ‘out of our senses’, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

Matthew Henry on Mark 3:14-22

The Calling of the Apostles. 13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. 14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, 15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: 16 And Simon he surnamed Peter; 17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: 18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas,… Read the whole commentary →

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