Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 8:15

15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministred unto them.

This Story is related with some further Circumstances. Mar. 1.29. Lu. 4.38, 39. Mark tells us, it was the house of Simon, and Andrew with Iames and Iohn (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 lift her up. Luke saith, it was a great Feaver that they besought him for her, That he stood over her and rebuked the Feaver. 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, tho called to be an Apo[illegible: 1 letter]tle, and that he had a Family. Feavers are ordinary Distempers, and often cured by ordinary means, but this was a great Feaver. 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 Christs goodness, and thankfulness, and teacheth us the use we should make of all Gods gracious Providences to us, to make us fitter for the Service of God, and to employ our selves in it; so taking the Cup of Salvation, and praising the Name of the Lord, Psal. 116.13.