Lay (κατακεισθα). Common verb for the sick (John 5:6).

Sick (συνεχομενον). "Held together." Co…

A bloody flux. Greek: Dysentery.

And laid his hand on him, in accordance with the promise of the Saviour,[Reference Mark 1…

Lay sick of a fever and a bloody flux: Literally, with fevers and dysentery, both words being used by St. Luke with professional …

In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteou…

Though Paul spent three months (cf. v.11) on Malta, Luke gives us only one more incident from his stay there—the healing of Publius’s father. This …

And had laid his hands upon him—Paul declares by prayer that he himself is not the author of the miracle, but only the minister, so that G…

And it came to pass that the father of Publius
So that Publius was not an old man, though of so much dignity and wea…

God can make strangers into friends—friends in distre .