Peter’s Mother-in-Law

“When Jesus came into Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.”

THE QUESTION

Jesus took a woman sick with a fever by the hand and helped her up, and the fever left her. Whose mother-in-law was she?

A) Andrew’s

B) Peter’s ✓

C) John’s

D) Matthew’s

A closer look

Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell this story. After teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum, Jesus went to Simon Peter’s home, where Peter’s mother-in-law lay in bed with a fever. He went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began to wait on them (Mark 1:21-31).

Here’s a detail many people miss: Peter was married. Paul later mentions that Cephas, as Peter was also called, took a believing wife along with him (1 Corinthians 9:5). And that same evening, the whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who were sick (Mark 1:32-34).

If you picked Andrew, you were close: Mark says it was the home of Simon and Andrew, so Peter’s brother lived there too (Mark 1:29).

Today’s verse says God “heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3). In a house in Capernaum, Jesus came close enough to take a sick woman by the hand.

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