When Jesus went home

Mark 3:19b–35 

 

did they hear it as a rejection, 

his ‘who are my brothers, my

mother?’, and invited anyone

living the Way of God to 

count themselves his kin? 

 

did it cause them pain, or pity,

to hear them speak so

of their brother, of her son: 

‘gone mad,’ ‘in league with

the ruler of demons’? 

 

did it hurt when he refused them,

their care, concern, their call? 

when he answered the scribes

their bated question, throwing 

more fuel on the maddening fire? 

 

did they stay with him

on the road from there, or

did they go back home? 

who was at home waiting

while they went out for him? 

 

did they hear it as rejection,

did it hurt when he refused them,

did it cause them pain, or pity,

and did they, his siblings and their

mother stay or go back home?