Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. This is going to be a bonus

episode where we respond to some listener questions that have been sent in. Thank you so much for

sending in your questions. I always want to do my best to answer your questions as best I can.

Obviously keeping in mind that sometimes I'm

drawing on the opinions of particular scholars. And as with most things, in Catholic biblical

teaching, there's typically not an official Catholic teaching on particular Bible verses,

but there are some questions that we can get answers to.

And there have been lots of questions sent through in the last few months, so we'll get to

as many as we can.

So firstly, we have a question from Dale.

He says, hi, I've been listening to your daily gospel exegesis, and I continue to learn

so much from it.

Thank you.

And Dale has a question here about Mary's role in Mark 321. So that is the incident where Jesus' family comes to see Jesus while

he's preaching and they're standing outside the house and the text of Mark 321 says that his mother is there, including his

brothers and sisters and mother, and they think he's out of his mind. So Dale's question is,

I find it hard to believe that Mary could be grouped in with those who were thinking Jesus was

out of his mind. Is this your perspective? Or is it that Mary just did not understand what Jesus was doing

similar to the finding in the temple? Perhaps I'm in the group who thinks that Mary was along

for the ride and perhaps to serve as a calming mediator between those relatives of Jesus

who were thinking Jesus to be out of his mind. I viewed this most especially in light of

Mary's role at the wedding feast of Cana and because of the church's high regard of Mary and she's

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