²⁰ When he returned to the house where he was staying, the crowds began to gather again, and soon it was so full of visitors that he couldn’t even find time to eat. ²¹ When his friends heard what was happening, they came to try to take him home with them.

“He’s out of his mind,” they said.

²² But the Jewish teachers of religion who had arrived from Jerusalem said, “His trouble is that he’s possessed by Satan, king of demons. That’s why demons obey him.”