Although so little is said about Mary during the three years of Jesus’ public ministry, yet we are conscious of her presence, content to watch and suffer silently as the hostility to him deepened and spread, but always ready to help him if the need arose.  Thus Mark records how on one occasion in Capernaum the rumour went round that he was losing his reason (3:20-33).  As soon as Mary heard it she hurried to the house where he was and sent a message to him through the crowd.  Was this the disaster which old Simeon had foretold, the overthrowing of so noble a mind through the strain of overwork?  If so she was ready to take him home with her and care for him until he was well again.  As it was, she soon found it was a false alarm.