Healing of Peter’s mother-in-law.

(Matt. 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-34; Luke 4:38-41).

The Evangelists Mark and Luke, place this in direct relationship to the preceding event.

Leaving the synagogue, the Lord entered Simon/Peter’s house to probably have something to eat. Peter’s mother-in-law was found to be extremely ill. Moreover, as a physician, Evangelist Luke elucidates that it was a “high fever.” By one word from Jesus, the fever instantly leaves the afflicted woman and even her strength returns to such an extent, that she gets up and begins to serve them. The driving out of demons, and then the miraculous cure of Simon’s mother-in-law, produced such a powerful impression, that after sunset (apparently, because this was Saturday), people started to bring the ill and the possessed to the door of the house, so that soon the whole town gathered outside; and the Lord healed many of various illnesses, and drove out many demons. In validating through his Gospel that Jesus is That Deliverer, about Whom the prophets foretold, Evangelist Matthew explains that through this mass healing, Isaiah’s prophecy had been fulfilled: “He Himself took our infirmities, And bore our sicknesses.” To take infirmities, means to remove the weakness from the ill and destroy it; to bear sicknesses, means to ease the pain of the ill, to heal. Not wishing to hear the witness from evil spirits, the Lord forbids them to pronounce through the lips of the possessed, that He is - Christ, Son of God.