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Mat 8:14. Πενθεράν, mother-in-law) Peter had not long before married a wife, and they are guilty of a mistake who paint him with white hair;[370] for all the disciples were young, and had a long course to perform in this world; see Joh 21:18.[371] This must be well kept in mind in every Evangelical History.[372]-πυρέσσουσαν, sick of a fever) in the actual paroxysm.
[370] Although it is not improbable that he was older than the other disciples.-B. H. E. p. 257.
[371] You may gather that concerning Judas Iscariot from Psa 109:8-9; Zebedee and Salome, the parents of James and John, were likewise both still living.-B. H. E. p. 258.
[372] For whoever will carefully weigh the youthful age of the disciples, and their original family connections and former condition, will readily make allowances for several errors which were committed by them in their state of discipleship, and, having regard to this consideration of the time, he will not require from them more than is reasonable, and so will find himself extricated from not a few difficulties.-Harm. l. c.