SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #137
And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her. And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. (Luke 4:38-39)
THE POWER OF INTERCESSION: Our Lord yielded to the intercession of His disciples for Peter's mother-in-law. To pray for the living and the dead is a work of mercy and a duty of brotherly love. "Pray for one another that you may be saved," writes St. James (5:16).
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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