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MARK 1:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.”
As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew — the domestic setting follows the synagogue setting immediately: the kingdom arrives in the house as well as the public gathering. The four named disciples are present — this is the inner circle in its first scene together, and they go to Simon and Andrew's home. The Capernaum house that serves as Jesus' base of operations throughout the Galilean ministry begins here as the destination after the first synagogue appearance. The movement from synagogue to house is the movement from public proclamation to private ministry — both spaces belong to the kingdom's work.

Church Fathers on Mark 1:29

First, it was right that the serpent’s tongue should be shut up, that it might not spread any more venom; then that the woman, who was first seduced, should be healed from the fever of carnal concupiscence.

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 1, 7

He retired then as the custom was on the sabbath-day about evening to eat in His disciples' house. But she who ought to have ministered was prevented by a fever.

Theophylact · 11th century

For the fever means intemperance, from which, we the sons of the synagogue [ed. note: See St. Augustine on Ps 72, no. 4, 5, 'Ecclesia Socrus Synagogue.' The Church is called the daughter of the Synagogue in the spurious 'Altercatio Eccles. et Synagog.' (Aug. Opp t. viii, p. 19.) They word 'synagogue' is applied to the Church by Justin M. Dial, see Tryph, p. 160 (Ben.) Clem. Alex. Str. vi, 633.], by the hand of discipline, and by the lifting up of our desires, are healed, and…

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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