Gospel (Mk 3,20-35) - At that time, Jesus entered a house and again a crowd gathered, so much so that they could not even eat. Then his men, hearing this, went out to fetch him; in fact they said: "he is beside himself". The scribes, who had come down from Jerusalem, said: "This man is possessed by Beelzebul and casts out demons through the prince of demons." But he called them and said to them in parables: «How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand; if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Likewise, if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot resist, but he is about to finish. No one can enter the house of a strong man and steal his things unless he has first tied up that strong man; then he will plunder his house. Truly I say to you, all the sins of the sons of men will be forgiven, even all the blasphemies that they say; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not have forgiveness forever: he will be guilty of eternal guilt." For they said, "He is possessed by an unclean spirit." Jesus' mother and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, sent for him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside looking for you.” But he answered them, "Who is my mother and who are my brothers?" Looking at those who were sitting around him, he said: «Here are my mother and my brothers! Because whoever does the will of God is brother, sister and mother to me."

The commentary on the Gospel by Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

This Sunday's Gospel presents us with Jesus retiring to his house in Capernaum with his disciples and immediately a large crowd crowds in front of the door, so much so that they don't even have time to eat. It is an image of the "exaggerated" love of Jesus. A love that disturbs and worries about his radical nature. And there are two attitudes that emerge very clearly: on the one hand, "his", that is, the relatives, the close friends of Jesus, perhaps even some of the disciples, those who consider Jesus as their property, something that is only for them and not for all. They are scandalized by Jesus' going among the crowds, his not sparing himself, his total giving of himself to others. They say: «he is out of his mind», he has lost his mind. Jesus is beside himself because he who truly loves cannot help but come out of himself, and live his whole life as a gift, and when he loves himself seriously, he even loses his head a little, but he lets his heart speak. The other attitude is that of the Pharisees and scribes, who came from Jerusalem to judge, to criticize the actions of Jesus. And here the comparison is even harsher, because they accuse Jesus of being sent by Beelzebul, one of the many names with which it is called the spirit of division that operates in the world. When there is someone like Jesus who does good, who he loves, who helps others, immediately the envy of evil arouses bad thoughts: it is not possible to do good, what interest is there behind it? It is the history of our times, when every good work is accused of do-goodism, and therefore of being evil, like when by applying the Gospel one welcomes foreigners and wants to show that this is a crime. Here Jesus responds very clearly to all of these: if a kingdom is divided within itself, it cannot remain standing. Evil divides and divides itself, and evil ends: Satan is defeated – says Jesus – because good is stronger. Jesus is that strong man he speaks of in the parable, who binds evil and frees men who live as if chained by their fears; it is a holy "plunder" that Jesus carried out by descending into death to free those who have died. And he doesn't do it with violence or force of arms, but only with his passionate love in which he wants us all to participate. Those who do not know how to recognize the good, those who gossip about the good that exists in the world, resist the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. And that sin that cannot be forgiven is not a punishment, but it is when we exclude ourselves from this love that comes looking for us too.