From: Mark 3:20-21
His Relatives Are Concerned About Jesus
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Commentary:
20-21. Some of His relatives, whose outlook was too human, regarded Jesus’
total commitment to apostolate as excessive: the only explanation, they thought,
was that He was out of His mind. On reading these words of the Gospel, we can-
not help being moved, realizing what Jesus did for love of us: people even thought
Him mad. Many saints, following Christ’s example, have been taken for madmen
—but they were mad with love, mad with love for Jesus Christ.
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Source: “The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries”. Biblical text from the
Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries by members of
the Faculty of Theology, University of Navarre, Spain.
Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, and
by Scepter Publishers in the United States.
First reading | Hebrews 9:2-3,11-14 © |
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Psalm | Psalm 46:2-3,6-9 |
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Gospel | Mark 3:20-21 © |
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