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John Gill
But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever,.... "A great fever", Luke says, Lu 4:38; a very violent one, which threatened with death, and must be very dangerous to an old person; [See comments on Matthew 8:14], And anon they tell him or her; for it seems, that not as soon as he came into the house, but some time after, when he had sat awhile, and rested himself after his fatigue in preaching;...
Matthew Henry
The Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; 2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. 3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. Christ was a house-to-house missionary, as well as an open-air preacher. There is much good to be done by...
Charles H. Spurgeon
But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. There were at least four of Christ’s followers in the house, yet the mother of the wife of one of them lay sick of a fever. Grace does not prevent suffering in the body; there will still be physical diseases even though in the soul there is spiritual health.