With one mind, all of them kept devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women (including Mary the mother of Jesus) and his brothers.

The other people told her, "You're out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said, "It's his angel."

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

As he continued his defense, Festus shouted, "You're out of your mind, Paul! Too much education is driving you crazy!"

But Paul said, "I'm not out of my mind, Your Excellency Festus. I'm reporting what is absolutely true.

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

For this people's minds have become stupid, and their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes so that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them."'