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[c] Some have seen in the Acts of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early 3rd century, or perhaps as early as the first half of the 2nd century) an identification of Thomas with the apostle Judas, Son of James. However, the first sentence of the Acts follows the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in distinguishing the apostle Thomas and ...
Thomas is martyred (background) by order of an Indian monarch (foreground). The Acts of Thomas connects Thomas the apostle's Indian ministry with two kings. [4] According to one of the legends in the Acts, Thomas was at first reluctant to accept this mission, but the Lord appeared to him in a night vision and said, “Fear not, Thomas.
Cultural depictions of Thomas the Apostle (1 C, 3 P) S. Saint Thomas Christians (11 C, 85 P) Pages in category "Thomas the Apostle"
The English spelling Thomas is a transliteration through Latin Thomas, of the approximate Greek transliteration (Ancient Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs), from Imperial Aramaic: תאמא, romanized: Tawmɑʔ), meaning 'twin'. Thomas is recorded in the Greek New Testament as the name of Thomas the Apostle (one of the twelve apostles of ...
The Gospel of John is the only canonical one that gives Thomas the Apostle a dramatic role and spoken part, and Thomas is the only character therein described as being apistos (' unbelieving '), despite the failings of virtually all the Johannine characters to live up to the author's standards of belief.
The Hymn of the Pearl (also Hymn of the Soul, Hymn of the Robe of Glory or Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle) is a passage of the apocryphal Acts of Thomas. In that work, originally written in Syriac, the Apostle Thomas sings the hymn while praying for himself and fellow prisoners. Some scholars believe the hymn predates the Acts, as it only ...
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.
The Book of Thomas the Contender [1] [2] or The Book of Thomas [3] [4] is a Gnostic revelation dialogue. [5] It is the seventh tractate in Codex II of the Nag Hammadi library . [ 1 ] The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [ 1 ] likely composed in Syria during the early 200s AD.