This episode covers Mark 3:7–35, where Jesus—now drawing massive crowds from all over the region—goes up on a mountain and chooses twelve apostles to be with him, preach, and cast out demons, deliberately bringing together unlikely companions like a tax collector and a zealot into one new community. Meanwhile, Jesus faces rejection from two directions: his own family arrives thinking he’s lost his mind, and religious teachers from Jerusalem accuse him of casting out demons by Satan’s power—a charge Jesus dismantles by pointing out that a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, and then warns that calling the Holy Spirit’s work evil is a dangerous path. The episode culminates with Jesus redefining family itself: when told his mother and brothers are waiting outside, he looks at those gathered around him and declares that whoever does God’s will is his true brother, sister, and mother—an invitation for anyone who follows him to belong to this new family.

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