John 20:6

Peter seeth the linen clothes lie — and the napkin folded up — The angels who ministered to him when he rose, undoubtedly folded up the napkin and linen clothes.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:17

Touch me not — Or rather, Do not cling to me (for she held him by the feet,) Matthew 28:9. Detain me not now. You will have other opportunities of conversing with me. For I am not ascended to my Father — I have not yet left the world. But go immediately to my brethren — Thus does he intimate in the... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:21

Peace be unto you — This is the foundation of the mission of a true Gospel minister, peace in his own soul, 2 Corinthians 4:1. As the Father hath sent me, so send I you — Christ was the apostle of the Father, Hebrews 3:1. Peter and the rest, the apostles of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:22

He breathed on them — New life and vigour, and saith, as ye receive this breath out of my mouth, so receive ye the Spirit out of my fulness: the Holy Ghost influencing you in a peculiar manner, to fit you for your great embassy. This was an earnest of pentecost.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:23

Whose soever sins ye remit — (According to the tenor of the Gospel, that is, supposing them to repent and believe) they are remitted, and whose soever sins ye retain (supposing them to remain impenitent) they are retained. So far is plain. But here arises a difficulty. Are not the sins of one who tr... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:28

And Thomas said, My Lord and my God — The disciples had said, We have seen the Lord. Thomas now not only acknowledges him to be the Lord, as he had done before, and to be risen, as his fellow disciples had affirmed, but also confesses his Godhead, and that more explicitly than any other had yet done... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:30

Jesus wrought many miracles, which are not written in this book — Of St. John, nor indeed of the other evangelists.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 20:31

But these things are written that ye may believe — That ye may be confirmed in believing. Faith cometh sometimes by reading; though ordinarily by hearing.... [ Continue Reading ]

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