Matthew Henry Commentary Matthew 8:14-17

"And when Jesus was come into Peter`s house, he saw his wife`s mother lying sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose, and ministered unto him. And when even was come, they brought unto him many possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases." — Matthew 8:14-17 (ASV)

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 church of Rome, which forbids ministers to marry, acts contrary to that apostle on whom they rely so much. He had his wife's mother with him in his family, which is an example to be kind to our relations.

In spiritual healing, the Scripture speaks the word; the Spirit gives the touch, touches the heart, touches the hand. Those who recover from fevers commonly are weak and feeble for some time afterward. But to show that this cure was above the power of nature, the woman was immediately so well that she could go about the business of the house. As the miracles Jesus performed became widely known, many thronged to Him.

He healed all who were sick, no matter how lowly the patient or how bad the case. Many are the diseases and calamities to which we are liable in the body. And there is more in those words of the gospel, that Jesus Christ bore our sicknesses and carried our sorrows, to support and comfort us under them, than in all the writings of the philosophers. Let us not grudge labour, trouble, or expense in doing good to others.