[JHavard]

Finally, and this is for J.Havard,I was widowed at 27 and had a mother-in-law for 15 more years so it seems silly to me to assume that Peter was married. Especially in light of the fact that as soon as she was healed she got up from her sick bed and started serving them. Do you think that her own daughter wss not with her sick mother? Wouldn't she have been taking care of serving? Ask enough questions and get some glimpses of probable reality. This also explains Corintians 9:5,and,have you ever thought about Jesus's Mother,He asked her to watch John and John to watch her. I think that probably none of the apostles were married. After all why did Jesus tell so many that they had to leave possessions and family to follow Him? I never read that he excepted wives,did you?

sara.. I was reading in the CE, trying to find out the succession order of the popes, and by accident ran into this.

Please comment.

Under Peter, Saint

Simon settled in Capharnaum, where he was living with his mother-in-law in his own house (Matthew 8:14; Luke 4:38) at the beginning of Christ's public ministry (about A.D. 26-28). Simon was thus married, and, according to Clement of Alexandria (Stromata, III, vi, ed. Dindorf, II, 276), had children. The same writer relates the tradition that Peter's wife suffered martyrdom (ibid., VII, xi ed. cit., III, 306). Concerning these facts, adopted by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., III, xxxi) from Clement, the ancient Christian literature which has come down to us is silent. Simon pursued in Capharnaum the profitable occupation of fisherman in Lake Genesareth, possessing his own boat (Luke 5:3).

(NOTE) Since I have pointed out previously how Euseius could not be totally trusted in his conclusions, I will not consider it proof of my personal theory of why Peter was considered the leader because of his age and position in life.

[saradippity]

Thanks for your answer. I had just about finished a response to you concerning my total inadequacies re computer retrievals and I got wiped out. This may not be much for people who know what they are doing but I am upset since the whole world of computers is very foreign to me. Please don't consider me abrupt or using avoidance but I cannot review what you suggested because I have no idea of how to find it. If you could give me step by step directions so that I might be able to find it on the computer, I would appreciate it and would enjoy discussing it.

Going back to the scripture passages on Peter, as a person who is a mother-in-law to my sons'wives,a person who had a mother-in-law for fifteen years after my husband died and as a daughtter to a mother,my experience leads me to believe that the situation at Peter's house was highly unusual if his wife was still alive.

On the other hand if I put on my feminist hat, it could well be that waiting on the men was what put the mother-in=law into her sick bed to begin with,then while she was abed Peter's wife had to serve the men and when mom-in-law recovered,Peter's wife took to the sick bed. Sounds like I may have just hit on the truth.(tongue in cheek)