Mark 3:21

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

Then his mother and his brothers came up, and standing outside, they sent a messenger to him to call him.

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

As Paul thus made his defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice. "Paul, you are raving mad; your great learning is driving you mad."

For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you.

Send the people away so that they may go to the farms and villages about here, and buy themselves something to eat."

There came to him his mother and his brothers, and they could not reach him because of the crowd.

For even his own brothers did not believe in him.