in Ordinary Time.  Of these instances, only 6 occur in Cycle B: 1970, 1973, 1991, 1997, 2018, and 2024.  When Mark 3:20-35 is next read during a Sunday Mass, it will have been 21 years since it was previously read. A critical component of this Gospel narrative is contained in Mark 3:20-21.  It is here that Mark introduces the reader to Jesus' family -- and these first impressions are not favorable.  Their rejection of Jesus because of his apparently scandalous behavior leads them to protect themselves by insisting that he is insane.  As such, they are paralleled by the scribes in a narrative likely inserted into the original family story by Mark.  As Morna Hooker has argued, "Both offer false explanations of [Jesus'] activity, and are therefore blind to the truth" (114).  Knowledge of the content of these two verses helps us interpret Jesus' response to his family in 3:31-35.  On the basis of 3:20-21, Jesus' question, "Who are my mother and [my] brothers?" and his insistence that "whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother" clearly excludes the family that has sought to drag him away as if he were in a strait-jacket! Yet even though Mark 3:20-35 is read annually in the weekday lectionary, the important first two verses are not generally heard.  The narrative begins on Saturday (3:20-21) of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, and continues on Monday (3:22-30) and Tuesday (3:31-35) of the Third Week.  The troubling first section is