Thinking Of Mrs. Peter

Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them.  Matthew 8:14-15

This little story is also told in the gospels of Mark and Luke, but this is almost as close as we come in the scriptures to knowing Peter's wife, or Mrs. Peter as we might say in the nearly lost Mister and Missus notation of a passing age. Thinking of Mrs. Peter and her mother is one way to bring your faith under attack. Try it. Thoughts swiftly come such as, "He only healed her because He wanted a woman to serve them. Typical lazy man!" or thoughts about how the Lord didn't care at all for Peter's wife, taking her husband and leaving the house without income. All manner of deceitful and untrue thoughts are flung like flaming darts at us when we give some thought to the unknowns of Peter's wife. And those flaming darts give us a clue to the letters of one who by the Lord's grace also gives us comfort in the matter of Mrs. Peter. 

In 1 Corinthians 9, and I will admit to needing help with this by way of a search engine and Bible websites, there is a quick mention of Mrs. Peter. No, not by name. Like so many great faiths of the Bible, Mrs. Peter goes without a name. But Paul gives us this comfort in the fifth verse: "Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?" A believing wife? Cephas? You mean Peter and Mrs. Peter? Yes! She believed in Jesus and went along with her husband on his missionary journeys! We get that comfort from a quick question of Paul's in one of his larger letters. We might easily miss it if not for dedicated Bible scholars and the Holy Spirit of our Lord telling us to search one more time for any mention of Peter's wife. 

Praise the Lord Jesus for Mrs. Peter!

Bucky