Mark 3:21

He Is beside Himself.

The sinner mad, not the saint

I find St. Paul in the same chapter confesses and denies madness in himself. Whilst he was mad indeed, then none did suspect or accuse him to be distracted; but when converted, and in his right mind, then Festus taxeth him of madness. (See Acts 26:11.) (Thomas Fuller, D. D.)

Mad because exceptional.

There is a country in Africa wherein all the natives have pendulous lips, hanging down like a dog’s ears, always raw and sore. Here only such as are handsome are pointed at for monsters. (Thomas Fuller, D. D.)

Troubled with a good son

When the son of Dr. Innes became a missionary, the good old man, who sorely grudged parting with his boy, said, “Some people are troubled with a bad son, but I am troubled with a good one.”