Mark 3:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²¹ And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And when those who belonged to Him (His kinsmen) heard it, they went out to take Him by force, for they kept saying, He is out of His mind (beside Himself, deranged)!

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

Common English Bible

²¹ When his family heard what was happening, they came to take control of him. They were saying, “He’s out of his mind!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: "Because he has gone mad."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.

Mark 3:21 Cross References

2 Kings 9:11

Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man and what his talk was.

Jeremiah 29:26

The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Hosea 9:7

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

Mark 3:31

And there come his mother and his brethren; and, standing without, they sent unto him, calling him.

John 10:20

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

Acts 26:24

And as he thus made his defence, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning doth turn thee to madness.

2 Corinthians 5:13

For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.