[Diego1618]

Given that , as you say. the "family" was hostile to his mission--a stretch indeed if you try to include Mary

Please then explain Mark 3:20-21, [Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, They went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind".] In verse 31 [Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.]

[RobbyS]

And Mark says EXPLICITLY that "his mother" was leading the pack? In such a culture, of course, the woman would NOT be "in change." She would be opposed to his work? The passage implies--to me--that Mark knew nothing about the events described in the infancy accounts in Matthew and Luke. If he had, then how likely is it that he would impute such motives to her? If Luke, for instance, is to be believed, she had a religious experience that makes Abraham's, Moses' and Paul's pale in comparison. Yet here she is, coming to take her crazy son home?