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Jesus goes to Peter's house, where he sees the mother of Peter's wife lying in bed with a high fever. Jesus touches her hand and the fever leaves her, and she gets up and begins to wait on him. In Matthew's gospel the event is the third in a series of healings recorded in chapter 8 which take place following Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.
Saint Remigius: "Or by Peter’s mother-in-law may be understood the Law, which according to the Apostle was made weak through the flesh, i. e. the carnal understanding. But when the Lord through the mystery of the Incarnation appeared visibly in the synagogue, and fulfilled the Law in action, and taught that it was to be understood spiritually ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. The New International Version translates the passage as: When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.
The synoptic gospels portray Jesus exorcising at sunset just after he had healed the mother of Peter's wife, in Matthew 8:16–17, Mark 1:32–34 and Luke 4:40–41. [ 1 ] According to the Gospels, after Jesus had healed the mother of Peter's wife, when evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the ...
The three synoptic gospels all record the healing of Simon Peter's mother-in-law. [12] When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He healed the woman of fever by touching her hand. She rose and began to wait on him. With this particular healing, something unique occurs.
A story about Peter's mother-in-law might have survived due to the popularity of Peter among early Christians. [56] Peter is clearly listed here as having a wife, as Jesus healed his mother-in-law. Paul says that other Apostles, Cephas (Peter), and Jesus' brothers have wives, but not him, in 1 Corinthians 9:5. See also Clerical celibacy.
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Healing the mother of Peter's wife; Herodias; J. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery; Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary; Jesus healing an infirm woman;