And He came home, and the crowd gathered again, to such an extent that they could not even eat a meal. When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, "He has lost His senses." The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons."
Jesus returned to Capernum, where he was staying at Peter’s home (which is now called Jesus’ own home). He is teaching again, but he is rejected because of what he is saying and doing by two groups. The first group is called “his own”. This is usually used to designate one’s family, or in this case it might indicate some of Jesus’ disciples. The second group is the educated scribes, an official group that has come from the council in Jerusalem to see for themselves what they had heard rumors about. It is significant that a group came from Jerusalem, because it meant that it represented Jewish “orthodoxy” in that time, possibly appointed by the Sanhedrin—the ruling council of Judeans. Both groups, in their own way, call Jesus “crazy.” The first say that he is (in Greek) “lost control of himself”. The scribes say that his miracles are done by the power of “Beelzebul” a title for an idol that they use for Satan. This means that his teaching and his ministry was rejected both by his own people, and by an official group of religious leaders.
Most people consider being called "crazy" a bad thing. For Christians, however, being considered crazy or dangerous simply because of words we speak, is a way of being like Jesus.
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