This account is also contained in Mark 1:29-31 and Luke 4:38-39. Mark adds that Simon and Andrew lived together, and that James and John went with …

She arose, and ministered unto them—The fact is stated to show the completeness of the work of healing. The “great fever”…

And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her…

Anselm of Canterbury: Having shown the healing of the whole human race in the leper, and that of the Gentiles in the centurio…

The main emphasis in this story is on Jesus’ authority. Peter was married (1 Corinthians 9:5) and had moved with his brother Andrew fro…

And he touched her hand
Sometimes he healed by a word, as the centurion's servant; and sometimes by a touch, as here…

Peter had a wife, yet was an apostle of Christ, who showed that He approved of the married state by being so kind to Peter's wife's relations. The …

And when Jesus had come into Simon Peter’s house, etc. Christ’s power is commended in the cure of the leper; it is also c…