and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
In these verses, we have, I. A particular account of one miracle that Christ wrought, in the cure of Peter's wife's mother, who was ill of a fever. This passage we had before, in Matthew. Observe, 1. When Christ had done that which spread his fame throughout all parts, he did not then sit still, as some think that they may lie in bed when their name is up.
Commenting on Mark 1:29-39
And when they had found him,.... In the desert and solitary place, where he had been praying: they said unto him; in order to engage him to go with them, and as the reason why they sought him with so much eagerness and diligence, all men seek for thee; not all the men in the world, nor, it may be, all the inhabitants of Capernaum...
Verse 37. All men seek for thee. That is, many men, or multitudes. The inquiry after him was general. They told him this evidently with a view to induce him to leave his place of retirement, and to prevail upon him to appear publicly, to instruct the multitudes.