Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Mark 3:21

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 55, footnote 19 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)

The Diatessaron. (HTML)

Section VII. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 590 (In-Text, Margin)

... were with him also? [41] And he said unto them, The sabbath was created because of man, and man was not [42] created because of the sabbath. Or have ye not read in the law, that the priests in [43] the temple profane the sabbath, and yet they are blameless? I say unto you now, [44] that here is what is greater than the temple. If ye had known this: I love mercy, [45] not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned those on whom is no blame. The [46] Lord of the sabbath is the Son of man.[Mark 3:21] And his relatives heard, and went out to take him, and said, He hath gone out of his mind.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 205, footnote 27 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Eustochium. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2937 (In-Text, Margin)

... of the apostle, “we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men,” and “we are fools for Christ’s sake” but “the foolishness of God is wiser than men.” It is for this reason she said that even the Saviour says to the Father, “Thou knowest my foolishness,” and again “I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge.” “I was as a beast before thee; nevertheless I am continually with thee.” In the gospel we read that even His kinsfolk desired to bind Him as one of weak mind.[Mark 3:21] His opponents also reviled him saying “thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil,” and another time “he casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.” But let us, she continued, listen to the exhortation of the apostle, “Our rejoicing is ...