Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 8:15

Matthew 8:15. And he touched her hand. Our Lord could heal by a word at a distance, in the response to faith, but He generally made some outward sign of His willingness and will to cure; the sign corresponding to the cure and proving that His will healed. The healing was instantaneous and perfect, she arose and ministered unto him (the singular is sustained by the best authorities), thus showing her perfect restoration. The faith of her family had called for the miracle, but she shows her own faith and her gratitude by ‘serving' the Lord, and that too in the natural and womanly way of household duty.

Matthew 8:16 tells us of a general gathering of the possessed and sick in Capernaum. Mark (Mark 1:32) says, ‘All the city was gathered together at the door.' Luke (Luke 4:41) tells how the demons recognized Him. For these numerous miracles of healing there was a sufficient motive.

Even. Either because the most convenient time, or the best time for the sick to be taken out, or it may have been the Sabbath (comp. Mark 1:21). Our Lord was ready to heal on the Sabbath, but the people may have waited until sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath ended. He healed them all, both those possessed with demons and the sick; two classes carefully distinguished from each other in the Gospels.

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Matthew 8:15

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