Matthew 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 14,15. This story is related, with some further circumstances, Mark 1:29-31 Luke 4:38,39. Mark tells us it was the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John; (it seems they lived there together); that they told him of her sickness, after he had been there some time; that he took her by the hand, and lifted her up. Luke saith it was a great fever; that they besought him for her; that he stood over her, and rebuked the fever. Here is no contradiction, only some amplifications of the story. It is plain from this text, that Peter was a married man, and continued so though called to be an apostle, and that he had a family. Fevers are ordinary distempers, and often cured by ordinary means, but this was a great fever. The miracle here was not in the cure of an incurable disease, but in the way of the cure, by a touch of his hand, or a lifting her up; and the suddenness of the cure, it immediately left her; and her sudden recovery of strength, that she could presently arise and minister to them: that she could do it, argued her cure miraculous; that she did do it, argues her sense of Christ's goodness, and thankfulness, and teacheth us the use we should make of all God's gracious providences to us, to make us fitter for the service of God, and to employ ourselves in it; so taking the cup of salvation, and praising the name of the Lord, Psalms 116:13.