Bible verse

Mark 3:21

When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”

Mark 3:21 · BSB

Mark 3:21 in context

The verses around it, from Mark 3.

17 James son of Zebedee and his brother John (whom He named Boanerges, meaning “Sons of Thunder”),

18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

20 Then Jesus went home, and once again a crowd gathered, so that He and His disciples could not even eat.

21 When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”

22 And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

23 So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

25 If a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

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Mark 3:21 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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