After His resurrection, Christ appears to ten of the disciples and gives them the gift of the Holy Spirit with the authority to forgive sins (John 20:19-23). When told by the other disciples, "we have seen the Lord," Thomas doubts this is true until he sees Jesus and His wounds for himself. 8 days later, Jesus again appears to the disciples, now with Thomas, and tells him to touch and see His wounds from the cross and to believe!
(John 20:24-29)
The doubt of Thomas is described in the Church hymns as "blessed," for it was not a doubt of resistance to truth, but one that desperately desired a truthful answer. A doubt which gave birth to faith when the answer was revealed. In hymns of the Church, Christ says to Thomas, "Your doubt will teach My Passion and Resurrection to all," and we affirm that his doubt "brought the hearts of believers to knowledge." The conversion of Thomas' doubt into faith led him to the clearest confession of Christ's divinity, addressing Jesus as "My Lord and my God."
If we are faithless, we are Christless and graceless, hopeless and joyless. Thomas was ashamed of his unbelief and cried out, My Lord and my God. He spoke with affection, as one that took hold of Christ with all his might; "My Lord and my God." Sound and sincere believers, though slow and weak, shall be graciously accepted by the Lord Jesus. It is the duty of those who read and hear the gospel, to believe, to embrace the doctrine of Christ, and that (1 John 5:11)
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24Now Thomas (also known as Didymus ), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
25So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “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.”
26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
27Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
28Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
29Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
30Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
31But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
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He will mail it out from Jerusalem.
He will be sent to your Side.
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