“And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.”
And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. Peter's house in Capernaum is the domestic base of the ministry (Matthew 4:13 locates Jesus in Capernaum), and the healing of Peter's mother-in-law is the intimate application of the healing authority after the public demonstrations with the leper and the centurion's servant. The fever that afflicted Peter's mother-in-law was serious — fevers were a major cause of death in the ancient world. Luke 4:38 records that Peter's father-in-law asked Jesus about her.
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