stood'-or

Updated: June 12, 2025

Matthew says, 'He touched her'; Luke says, 'He stood'-or rather, as the Greek means, 'He bent over her and rebuked the fever. Perhaps Peter was close to the pallet, and saw and remembered that there were not a standing over and rebuking the fever only, but that there was the going out of His tender sympathy to the sufferer, and that if there were stern words as of indignation and authority addressed to the disease as if to an unlawful intruder, there were also compassion and tenderness for the victim.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Mark