Exercise

The Gospel of Mark says that at the beginning of Jesus' preaching and healing bonanza--that is, the beginning of his ministry: "When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying 'He has gone out of his mind.'" This suggests not only that Jesus' ministry began very suddenly, but--I think--that he also had a revelatory insight, a fundamental change of perspective, an insight great enough to produce a sudden and unprecedented change in his character and disposition. Recall also that a prophet is never accepted in his hometown. (What changed?)
Not only did the people--who presumably knew him before--think that he had "gone out of his mind"--which itself suggests a major shift in his disposition--but also his very family seems to be surprised by the information.
If this new Jesus--who happens to be the only one we know, apart from such apocryphal gospels as Thomas', whose depiction of the self-consciously divine child-Jesus is here contradicted--rather, if this Jesus is new at all, as the reactions of his family and acquaintances would imply, then what does that mean about who Jesus was before this sudden change? And what does that imply about his purpose and his own conviction concerning it? Most importantly, what does this insight entail concerning Jesus' fundamental nature?

Point, awaiting counterpoint. Seize the present uncertainty: faith, child. Faith.