“When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 8 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.