Mark 1:30

30 Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever, and without delay they informed Him about her.

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 And His fame spread at once everywhere in all that part of Galilee.

29 Then on leaving the synagogue they came at once, with James and John, to the house of Simon and Andrew.

30 Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever, and without delay they informed Him about her.

31 So He went to her, and taking her hand He raised her to her feet: the fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

32 When it was evening, after sunset people came bringing Him all who were sick and the demoniacs;