21 And when[a] his family[b] heard this,[c] they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, “He has lost his mind!”

22 And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul!” and “By the ruler of the demons he expels the demons!” 23 And he called them to himself and[d] was speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan expel Satan?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:21 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Mark 3:21 Literally those “close to him”
  3. Mark 3:21 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Mark 3:23 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“called”) has been translated as a finite verb