What happens when you get sick? You feel down, feeble and painful sometimes. What about others around you? Your dear ones, your household and your visitors? For sure they will be disturbed and worried about you, maybe trying to help you out from this situation. They would think of calling a doctor or take you to a hospital. They will surely pray if they are good believers.

We really don’t know why the mother in law of Simon Peter was at Peter’s house as specified in (Luke4: 38), but that could be permanent or temporary. In any case she got sick and specifically had a fever. It seems it got worse and she was not able to serve them as might have been expected, when Jesus came to visit them.

According to the Gospels’ narrations we find this mentioned in (Mark 1: 28-33), that the Lord Jesus was in the temple with his disciples, and when they came out from there, they went to the house of Simon and Andrew his brother. It is mentioned they came with James and his brother John sons of Zebedee, which were their fishing partners and maybe relatives.

Simon’s mother in law was lying down with a fever and they told Jesus about it because her situation was severe as mentioned in (Luke4: 38) it says “a severe fever”, and that is why they told the Lord before doing anything or even try to do any natural treatment.

The Bible mentions that he took her by her hand and raised her up and immediately the fever left her, and she began to serve them. The news casted all around the villages, and everybody brought his sick relatives and friends to be healed.

For me, I made a short story long and had Peter excluded from being with the Lord in the Synagogue, and that might have been the case. More and above, I had him busy with his fishing business which he loved, as we see later in the gospel of John: (John Chapter 21: 3), he tells the disciples: “I am going fishing”, forgetting the grate commission the Lord promised, him by making him a fisher of men. In John 21 the story tells us they caught nothing! And that was not the first time, as it surely occurred in (Luke5:5) that they spent the whole night fishing catching nothing.

I don’t know how it came all together, but Mark 1 with Luke5 were the target that led me to write how the Lord came from Judea to Galilee and dwelt in Capernaum (Matthew4: 12,13) and (Mark1: 21-28) as well as (Mark2: 1-12) about the paralytic hanged down from the opening in the roof, which I considered one of those coming from the villages around to the house of Simon.

So many stories mentioned in the Gospels, were gathered to form one story, which is the third episode in the series of “Stories of Simon”, namely: “The Fishing Project”.