Hi everyone.

Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast produced by Logical Bible Study.

And as always, we're going to dive into the text from today's gospel reading,

and we're going to try to work out what's the literal sense. What did the words mean in their

original context? What was the author trying to convey to their audience? And this is where we have

to start as Catholics. We have to look at the literal sense first. We have a really interesting

reading today, a short one.

So Mark chapter 3 verses 20 to 21.

Jesus went home and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal.

When his relatives heard of this, they set out to take charge of him, convinced he was out of his mind.

So that's our reading for today.

And as always, we want to start by thinking about the context, what's happened just before this.

So Jesus has just begun his ministry in Galilee in the northern part of Israel.

So it's very early on, but already he's developed quite a big following.

There's crowds everywhere following him around.

Just before this, he's gone up into the hills around the Sea of Galilee to pick his 12

apostles.

Now, we'll start at verse 19B today.

This is the last phrase in verse 19. It helps

sets the scene. It just says, then he went home. So Jesus now goes back to Copernum. That's his

home at the moment. And remember he's living in the house of Simon and Andrew. That's his house

in Copernum. Verse 20, once more, such a crowd collected. So try to get

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