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Hi, everyone. 
Welcome back to the Daily 

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gospel, exegesis podcast, 
produced, by logical Bible 

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study. 
And as always, we're going to 

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dive into the text from today's 
Gospel reading. 

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And we're going to try to work 
out. 

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What's the literal sense? 
What do the words mean in their 

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original context? 
What was the author trying to 

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convey? 
To Their audience. 

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And this is where we have to 
start as Catholics. 

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We have to look at the literal 
sense. 

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First we have a really 
interesting reading today, a 

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short one. 
So mark 3:20-21, Jesus went home

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and once more such a crowd 
collected that they could not 

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even have a meal. 
When his relatives heard of 

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this, they set out to take 
charge of him convinced who is 

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out of his mind. 
So that's our reading for today.

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And as always, we want to start 
by thinking about the context, 

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what's happened just before 
this. 

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So Jesus has just begun his 
ministry in Galilee in the 

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northern part of Israel. 
So it's very early on but 

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already has developed quite a 
big following. 

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There's crowds everywhere 
following him around just before

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this he's gone up into the hills
around the Sea of Galilee to 

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pick his 12 Apostles. 
Now, we'll start at verse 19 be 

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today. 
This is the last phrase in verse

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19, it Sets the same, it uses, 
then he went home. 

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So, Jesus now goes back to 
Capernaum. 

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That's his home at the moment. 
And remember, he's living in the

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house of Simon and Andrew, 
that's his house in Capernaum, 

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verse 20, once more such a crowd
collected. 

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So, try to get the picture here,
Jesus is at home, in his small 

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house in Capernaum. 
In fact, he can go and see this 

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house today. 
If you go to Capernaum, they've 

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basically uncovered what the 
house looks like. 

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And you can look, In from a 
bird's eye view, to see a floor 

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plan of this actual house. 
It's quite amazing. 

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So Jesus is here at home in his 
small house, probably with his 

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disciples probably with his 
family. 

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And there's people from all over
the countryside, who want to 

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follow Jesus, and they followed 
him home and they're probably 

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inside the house. 
They're all crowding into the 

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house and marcius says, there's 
such a crowd that they could not

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even have a meal. 
So Jesus and his disciples and 

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his relatives, they just want to
sit down in their house to have 

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a meal. 
They can't even do that. 

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Those such a IT Crowd, they're 
wanting to hear from Jesus. 

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Verse 21, when his relatives 
heard of this. 

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Now, some translations don't 
have the word relatives. 

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They have it as friends or even 
own people when his own people 

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who heard of this. 
But I think the best translation

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is relatives or family. 
So our lectionary gets it right 

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here, his relatives heard of 
this. 

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So, this would be his relatives 
in Nazareth, which is not far 

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from Capernaum. 
And Nazareth, is where Jesus 

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grew up, and it's where most of 
his relatives still live. 

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Now, verse One tells us more 
about who specifically these 

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relatives are. 
So Mark tells us in verse 31 

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that his mother hears about this
and a group that Mark calls his 

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Brethren. 
And we'll look at this phrase a 

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bit more when we get to that 
reading. 

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Because obviously, there's been 
a lot of controversy about who 

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the Brethren of Jesus are in 
Nazareth. 

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The short version. 
Is it appears that these 

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Brethren are Jesus? 
Cousins, roughly there. 

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From Mary's side of the family 
and they also live in Nazareth, 

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just like married. 
So he's relatives his mother and

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his Brethren set out to take 
charge of him or more. 

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Literally, what it actually says
here is, they went out to seize 

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him, the same word there is used
for, when Jesus is arrested, 

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they went out to seize him. 
So, Jesus relatives here, they 

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travel from Nazareth to 
Capernaum to come and get Jesus.

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That's a 20-mile journey. 
So probably would have taken a 

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whole day for them to get, from 
Nazareth to Capernaum. 

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So, word is spreading from 
Capernaum to the nearby towns 

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that this miracle worker. 
Jesus is attracting, huge crowds

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and Jesus relatives here about 
this and they want to come and 

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seize him. 
Why will Mark says they are 

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convinced. 
He was out of his mind, there's 

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different ways of translating 
this particular phrase, so 

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instead of out of his mind, you 
can translate it. 

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He is beside himself and there's
even some ambiguity about who 

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says it. 
So, some translations have the 

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relatives saying he is beside 
himself. 

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But other translations because 
the Greek here is ambiguous 

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other translations, put it as 
for some people were saying he's

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beside himself. 
So either Jesus family is saying

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this or at least people in 
Nazareth in general are saying 

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that Jesus is beside himself. 
So word is getting around. 

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That Jesus is out of his mind. 
We need to keep in mind the 

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cultural context at this 
particular time. 

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So in this culture, family 
obligations and family ties are 

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very strong. 
They are very important and they

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overshadow a lot of individual 
rights that we would have today 

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in Western Society. 
Family obligations came first 

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and an individual was always in 
a sense, representing his 

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family. 
So, any action by an individual 

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in that culture was seen as a 
reflection on the whole family 

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and any breach of family, honor 
would result. 

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It in severe discipline. 
So from the perspective of Jesus

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family here, Jesus should be 
back in Nazareth, being a 

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carpenter rather than doing 
weird things like attracting 

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crowds and making the religious 
authorities angry. 

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So from what Jesus family 
understands Jesus wonder-working

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activity. 
It's probably evidence that he's

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mentally imbalanced. 
He's not thinking straight, 

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there's something wrong with 
him. 

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And we later see this in chapter
6, when Jesus actually goes to 

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Nazareth Pretty much the whole 
town has a similar attitude. 

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They think he should be a 
carpenter. 

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He shouldn't be a miracle 
worker. 

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Also keep in mind that Joseph is
probably no longer Alive by this

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point. 
So Jesus older relatives 

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probably felt that Jesus was 
under their charge. 

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They have to take responsibility
for him. 

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So they hear that he's doing 
these weird things that he's out

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of his mind is so they set out 
to find him and sees him 

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probably this is partially to 
protect him as well because they

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Much sense that he's making a 
religious authorities angry and 

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he might be in danger so they 
come to get him in Capernaum. 

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That's the end of today's text 
and we then have what's 

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Scholars, call a mark and that 
sandwich? 

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So Mark often does this where he
starts a story then leaves it in

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complete turns to something else
and then later finishes the 

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story and it seems that he does,
this does this very carefully, 

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he puts a particular story in 
the middle of the sandwich, 

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that's going to in a Sense, 
amplify both ends of the 

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sandwich. 
And that's what Mark does here. 

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He leaves this story. 
Incomplete, and he turns his 

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attention to another event and 
then he goes back to describing 

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what happens with Jesus 
relatives. 

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So, this story of Jesus 
relatives will pick up again in 

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verse 31, which tells us what 
happens when the family arrives 

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in Capernaum, and he can hear 
that continuation on Tuesday of 

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week 3 in ordinary time. 
The next thing we're going to 

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hear this kind of middle of the 
sandwich, This interrupting 

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story involves, Jesus being 
accused of being possessed by 

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the devil, and that is actually 
linked to what Mark has just 

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said here about his family, 
because in that culture, mental 

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imbalance was associated with 
demonic activity. 

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So, that leads pretty well into 
this next story where people 

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come right out and accused users
of being possessed by the devil 

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because they're sort of 
perceiving that, he's not 

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mentally right in their view. 
So, that's an interesting 

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reading today. 
There's no catechism references 

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for us to look, Cat. 
So we'll finish it there. 

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