Mark 3:21
Good News Translation
When his family heard about it, they set out to take charge of him, because people were saying, "He's gone mad!"

New Revised Standard Version
When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus' family heard what he was doing, they thought he was crazy and went to get him under control.

New American Bible
When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.

when.

friends.

Mark 3:31 And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

John 7:3-10 And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost. . . .

He is.

2 Kings 9:11 Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his Lord: and they said to him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to them: You know the man, and what he said.

Jeremiah 29:26 The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

John 10:20 And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him?

Acts 26:24 As he spoke these things and made his answer, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee mad.

2 Corinthians 5:13 For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for you.

Context
A House Divided
20And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad. 22And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.…
Cross References
2 Kings 9:11
Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his Lord: and they said to him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to them: You know the man, and what he said.

Jeremiah 29:26
The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.

Mark 3:31
And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

John 7:3
And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

John 7:5
For neither did his brethren believe in him.

John 7:10
But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.

John 10:20
And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him?

Acts 26:24
As he spoke these things and made his answer, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee mad.

2 Corinthians 5:13
For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for you.

Mark 3:20
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