# Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time - The Power of His Word

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Published: 2026-09-01T09:00:12+00:00
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Read Online The Power of His Word After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her. He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them. Luke 4:38–39 In today’s Gospel, we encounter the first mention of Simon—whose name Jesus would later change to Peter—in Luke’s account. Simon was likely present in the synagogue and witnessed Jesus cast out a demon from a possessed man. With a simple command, “Be quiet! Come out of him!”, Jesus revealed His divine authority. The people were astonished and exclaimed, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out” (Luke 4:35–36). Having seen His authority firsthand, Simon presumably spoke to Jesus about his mother-in-law, who was suffering from a severe fever. It is striking to imagine the moment of Simon’s first personal encounter with the Lord. Though Jesus, in His divine foresight, knew what Simon would one day become—the first pope entrusted with the spiritual authority of Heaven—Simon himself could not have foreseen how radically his life was about to change. Upon entering Simon’s home, Jesus rebuked the fever. The Greek word used here, epitimaō , is the same word used in the previous passage when Jesus rebuked the demon. This deliberate parallel reveals that both the spiritual and physical realms are subject to Jesus’ command. What He rebuked were real evils and disorders: demonic possession as a violation of the soul and the fever as a natural affliction of the body. Later in this Gospel passage, Jesus continues healing many who are sick and casting out demons. Once again, He rebukes the demons, silencing them and…

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