And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
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Gill's Exposition
And he touched her hand,.... Sometimes he healed by a word, as the centurion's servant; and sometimes by a touch, as here; and sometimes by both, as the leper. Luke says, that he "stood over her",…
This account is contained also in Mar 1:29-31, and Luk 4:38-41. Mark says that Simon and Andrew lived together, and that James and John went with them to the house. He adds, also, that before the…
They who pretend to be critical in the Harmony of the evangelists, place this passage, and all that follows to the end of ch. 9 before the sermon on the mount, according to the order which Mark and…
The Cure of Peter's Mother-in-law of a Fever, Mar 1:29-31; Luk 4:38-39
St Luke's description bears special marks of scientific accuracy.
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