Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Matthew 8:15
She arose, and ministered unto them. — The fact is stated as showing the completeness of the work of healing. The “great fever” had not left behind it its usual sequel of weakness and exhaustion.
She arose, and ministered unto them. — The fact is stated as showing the completeness of the work of healing. The “great fever” had not left behind it its usual sequel of weakness and exhaustion.
Verse Matthew 8:15. _HE TOUCHED HER HAND_] Can any thing on this side the unlimited power of God effect such a cure with only a touch? If the Scriptures had not spoken of the divinity of Christ, these...
This account is contained also in Mark 1:29, and Luke 4:38. Mark says that Simon and Andrew lived together, and that James and John went with them to the house. He adds, also, that before the miracle...
6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...
MATTHEW 8:14 F. SIMON'S WIFE'S MOTHER (Mark 1:29 *, Luke 4:38 f.). Mt. abbreviates and heightens Mk. the cure is wrought by a mere touch. Matthew 8:16
LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...
And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed. ill with a fever. So lie touched her hand and the fever left her. And she rose, and busied herself serving them....
_the fever left her_ The completeness and suddenness of the cure prove the miraculous nature of it. _ministered unto them_ Eager, as good housewives are to return to their work. _unto them_ There is...
The Cure of Peter's Mother-in-law of a Fever, Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39 St Luke's description bears special marks of scientific accuracy....
THE CURE OF PETER’S MOTHER-IN-LAW OF A FEVER, Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39. St Luke’s description bears special marks of scientific accuracy. Both St Mark and St Luke mention that the incident took pla...
ἭΨΑΤΟ. The touch of Jesus is not mentioned in Luke. ἈΦΗ͂ΚΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΉΝ. The addition of εὐθέως in Mark is probably a gloss. St Luke however has παραχρῆμα�. To the physician the completeness and suddennes...
VER 14. AND WHEN JESUS WAS COME INTO PETER'S HOUSE, HE SAW HIS WIFE'S MOTHER LAID, AND SICK OF A FEVER. 15. AND HE TOUCHED HER HAND, AND THE FEVER LEFT HER: AND SHE AROSE, AND MINISTERED UNTO THEM. An...
_SOME MIRACLES OF JESUS MATTHEW 8:1-15:_ In Matthew 8:1-4 the great multitudes followed him. They did not follow Him with their hearts but they walked along with Him. A leper came in faith to the only...
ΉΨΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΤΩ (G681), _см._ Matthew 8:3. ΆΦΉΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) отпускать, ΉΓΈΡΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΈΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453) пробуждать; _pass._ вставать, поднимат...
AND HE TOUCHED HER HAND— Her cure was effected in an instant, and not slowly, like the cures produced in the course of nature, or by medicine; for though the length and violence of her distemper had b...
Section 14 JESUS HEALS PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW (Parallels: Mark 1:21-34; Luke 4:31-41) TEXT: 8:14-17 14. And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick of a fever....
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 1:29. The incidents here are two: in the corresponding pas...
5-13 Compare Luk_7:1-10. 5 This is followed by an intimation that, though rejected by His own, He would be accepted by the nations, as is the case in the book of Acts. The priest was at one end of the...
MINISTERED] i.e. 'waited at table.' The fever had left no weakness....
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW, AND OF MANY SICK AND POSSESSED PERSONS (Mark 1:29; Luke 4:38). According to St. Mark and St. Luke these miracles took place on the sabbath, after the synagogue servic...
THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 *MIRACLES WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE 8:1–9:38 Matthew showed Jesus’ authority by what he taught in Chapter s 5-7. Now Matthew shows...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
ἥψατο. He touched her hand; here to cure, in Mark to raise her up. ἠγέρθη, διηκόνει : she rose up at once and continued to serve at the meal; all present but Jesus only referred to here (αὐτῳ, plural...
_Cure of a fever: Peter's mother-in-law_ (Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39). This happened much earlier, at the beginning of the Galilean ministry, the second miracle-history in Mark and Luke. Mark at this...
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN Matthew 8:11-17 A feast was the Hebrew conception of heaven. The Jews thought they were secure of it, because of their descent from Abraham. Grace is not hereditary; to receive i...
The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
CHAPTER 28 JESUS HOMELESS Matthew 8:1-22, & Luke 9:57-62. “And it came to pass, they journeying on the way, a certain one said to Him, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou mayest go, Lord; and Jesus...
What a beautiful representation is here made, in a short compass, of the lovely, and all-loving JESUS! With a word only the Lord healed! Think of. his sovereignty: think of his grace. And let not the...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessi...
AND HE TOUCHED HER HAND,.... Sometimes he healed by a word, as the centurion's servant; and sometimes by a touch, as here; and sometimes by both, as the leper. Luke says, that he "stood over her", rea...
And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. Ver. 15. _And he touched her hand_] A speedy and easy cure of the fever, such as Hippocrates or Galen had nev...
_And when Jesus was come into Peter's house_ As is related Mark 1:29, &c.; _he saw his wife's mother laid_ Peter was then young, as were all the apostles; _sick of a fever_ Fevers are ordinary distemp...
AND HE TOUCHED HER HAND, AND THE FEVER LEFT HER; AND SHE AROSE AND MINISTERED UNTO THEM. Jesus had, on a certain Sabbath-day, attended the synagogue. Returning from there, and coming into the house of...
VARIOUS MIRACLES OF HEALING. Cure of a fever:...
Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compas...
14-17 Peter had a wife, yet was an apostle of Christ, who showed that he approved of the married state, by being thus kind to Peter's wife's relations. The church of Rome, which forbids ministers to...
Ver. 14,15. This story is related, with some further circumstances, MARK 1:29 LUKE 4:38,39. Mark tells us it was _the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John; _ (it seems they lived there toget...
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul or that He was deceived in touching Peter's wife's mother;[125]...
Matthew 8:15 G2532 touched G680 (G5662) her G846 hand G5495 and G2532 fever G4446 left G863 ...
‘And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose, and ministered to him.' Note how this parallels what Jesus did with the leper. He touched both the leper and the fevered woman and they...
Matthew 8:15. AND HE TOUCHED HER HAND. Our Lord could heal by a word at a distance, in the response to faith, but He generally made some outward sign of His willingness and will to cure; the sign corr...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
ON OUR LORD'S MIRACLES. The Greek word translated miracle means literally ‘power'; the idea of wondering underlies our word miracle. A miracle is therefore some wonderful display of power; the special...
TOUCHED HER HAND (ηψατο της χειρος αυτης). In loving sympathy as the Great Physician and like any good doctor today. MINISTERED (διηκονε). "Began to minister" (conative imperfect) at once to Jesu...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper_ You see that particular mention is made of this one special case, and, in any co...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,_ Great multitudes often count for nothing; it is here or ther...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...
Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...
HE TOUCHED HER HAND. Sometimes Jesus healed by a word, sometimes by a touch. At the touch of his hand, she was immediately well and got up to wait on him....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:1 The Authoritative Power of the Messiah: Kingdom Power Demonstrated. Jesus has shown himself to be the Messiah through his teaching (chs. Matthew 5:1
JESUS HEALS PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW AND MANY OTHERS MATTHEW 8:14-17; MARK 1:29-34; LUKE 4:38-41; MATTHEW 8:14 And when Jesus was come int
CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:16. WHEN THE EVEN WAS COME.—Or, as St. Luke has it, “while the sun was setting.” There were two reasons why the time should be thus specified. 1. It was natural that the s...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...
Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...
2 Kings 13:21; Acts 19:11; Isaiah 6:7; John 12:1; Luke 4:38;...
THE MIRACLE-WORKING CHRIST Matthew 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship with God...