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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.
[21] But when Jesus appeared later and invited Thomas to touch his wounds and behold him, Thomas showed his belief by saying, "My Lord and my God". [22] Jesus then said, "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." [23]
With this statement, Jesus was not only reaching out to Thomas, but is reaching out to all future believers (cf. John 17:20–24) and embraces them all. [3] The followers of Jesus since the time of Jesus rely on 'secure evidence' (Scripture, the witness of the church through the ages, personal experiences in faith) without having actually seen ...
The Gospel of Thomas and Christian origins: essays on the Fifth Gospel. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004256217. OCLC 857769614. Perrin, Nicholas (2007). Thomas: The Other Gospel. Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. ISBN 9780664232115. OCLC 137305724. Pokorný, Petr (2010). Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas: from interpretations to the interpreted.
According to the Gospel of John, Thomas the Apostle missed one of Jesus's appearances to the Apostles after his resurrection, and said "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." [2] A week later, Jesus appeared and told Thomas to touch him and stop ...
Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, who informs the disciples [17] Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene. She tells "those who had been with him," but they don't believe her story. [18] Jesus appears to two disciples [19] Jesus appears to two disciples [20] Appearance of Jesus to the other disciples "[H]e appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
In John 13:13–14 Jesus used the term 'teacher' and 'lord' as synonyms, but here 'my Lord' is designated to the risen Christ, and 'my God' resumes Jesus' description in the Prologue as 'God' (John 1:1, 18). [2] This is the only time in the four canonical gospels that Jesus is addressed as God. [3]
It surely shocked Thomas that Jesus knows exactly his problem as every letter of his requirements for physical verification is met and spoken back to him with uncanny precision. [2] The repetition of his wording, and the shown sympathy to his misgivings, must have left deep impression to Thomas, leading to the response in John 20:28. [5]