when his friends not the Apostles, but His relatives, including "His brethren and His mother," who are noticed here as going forth, and a few verses later on as having arrived at the house where our Lord was (Mark 3:31), or the place where the crowds were thronging Him.

He is beside himself They deemed the zeal and daily devotion to His labour of love a sort of ecstasy or religious enthusiasm, which made Him no longer master of Himself. St Paul uses the word in this sense in 2 Corinthians 5:13, "For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God." Comp. the words of Festus to St Paul (Acts 26:24).

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