Acts 28:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

sick of. taken with. Greek. sunecho. See Luke 4:38.

a fever. fevers. Greek. puretos. Elsewhere Matthew 8:15.Mark 1:31.Luke 4:38; Luke 4:39; John 4:52. Always in singular. But found in plural in medical works. Perhaps to convey the idea of severity which is expressed by "great" in Luke 4:38. or of their recurrence bloody flux. Greek. duaenteria. Hence Engl, dysentery. Only here

prayed. Greek. proseuchomai. App-134.

healed. Greek. iaomai. See Luke 6:17.

Acts 28:8

8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.