OFFLIST: [B-Greek] Mark 3:21 hOI PAR 'AUTOU
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 13 06:25:25 EDT 2005
OFF-LIST:
David, I think ATR is surely right about this, and I think that evidence
for it can be found in the "triptych" created by a frame constituted by Mk
3:20-21 and 3:31-34 and the inner story, 3:22-30. You'll find my own
discussion of this in my "Brief Commentary on Mark's Gospel"
http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Mark/
specifically Chap 3:7-35 and the note-panel that is accessible from my
translation panel. You may not agree with me, but give it a look. I think
there's a big Marcan theme here of "insiders" and "outsiders" and of
reversal of roles so that the "outsiders" have become "insiders" and the
"insiders" "outsiders."
At 9:10 PM -0500 4/12/05, David Bielby wrote:
>This question was brought to me by another pastor in our community. AT
>Robertson explains the answer well in his Word Pictures, but Im wondering
>if current
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>scholarship would concur. Does anyone here know the answer and where I
>could find a current study on this?
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>AT Robertson clipped in here
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>Mar 3:21 - His friends (hoi par' autou). The phrase means literally "those
>from the side of him (Jesus)." It could mean another circle of disciples who
>had just arrived and who knew of the crowds and strain of the Galilean
>ministry who now come at this special juncture. But the idiom most likely
>means the kinspeople or family of Jesus as is common in the LXX. The fact
>that in verse 31 "his mother and his brothers" are expressly mentioned would
>indicate that they are "the friends" alluded to in verse 21. It is a
>mournful spectacle to think of the mother and brothers saying, He is beside
>himself (exestê). Second aorist active indicative intransitive. The same
>charge was brought against Paul (Ac 26:24; 2Co 5:13). We say that one is out
>of his head. Certainly Mary did not believe that Jesus was in the power of
>Beelzebub as the rabbis said already. The scribes from Jerusalem are trying
>to discount the power and prestige of Jesus (3:22). See on Mt 9:32-34;
>10:25; 12:24 for Beelzebub and Beelzebul. Mary probably felt that Jesus was
>overwrought and wished to take him home out of the excitement and strain
>that he might get rest and proper food. See my The Mother of Jesus: Her
>Problems and Her Glory. The brothers did not as yet believe the pretensions
>and claims of Jesus (Joh 7:5). Herod Antipas will later consider Jesus as
>John the Baptist redivivus, the scribes treat him as under demonic
>possession, even the family and friends fear a disordered mind as a result
>of overstrain. It was a crucial moment for Jesus. His family or friends came
>to take him home, to lay hold of him (kratêsai), forcibly if need be.
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>Thank you!!
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>David Bielby
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>Pastor
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