Mark 1:30

30 Simon's mother-in-law was sick in bed, burning up with fever. They told Jesus.

Mark 1:30 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 1:30

But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever
"A great fever", Luke says, ( Luke 4:38 ) ; a very violent one, which threatened with death, and must be very dangerous to an old person; (See Gill on Matthew 8:14),

And anon they tell him or her;
for it seems, that not as soon as he came into the house, but some time after, when he had sat awhile, and rested himself after his fatigue in preaching; they acquainted him with her case, and beseeched him to look upon her, and restore her: this was done, either by Simon and Andrew, or by some others of their friends that were in the house; who having either seen, or heard of his dispossessing the unclean spirit, might rightly conclude he had power to remove a fever.

Mark 1:30 In-Context

28 News of this traveled fast and was soon all over Galilee.

29 Directly on leaving the meeting place, they came to Simon and Andrew's house, accompanied by James and John.

30 Simon's mother-in-law was sick in bed, burning up with fever. They told Jesus.

31 He went to her, took her hand, and raised her up. No sooner had the fever left than she was up fixing dinner for them.

32 That evening, after the sun was down, they brought sick and evil-afflicted people to him,