NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 4:38

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38

He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her.

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Verse 38. It is evident that Saint Peter was married; but after his call to the apostleship, he left his wife, as S. Jerom writes, in ep. xliii. Calmet. ii. ad Julianum, and l. i. adv. Jovin. See Matthew 19:29.

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