JOHN—NOTE ON John 20:28 Thomas’s confession of Jesus as his Lord and God confirms the references to Jesus as God in John 1:1, John 1:18. This is one of the clearest NT texts on the deity of Christ. Some false religious cults try to explain this away by arguing that Thomas’s statement was merely an exclamation of astonishment that, in effect, took God’s name in vain. Such an explanation is unthinkable, however, given the strong Jewish moral convictions of the day and because Thomas said these words to him, that is, to Jesus.

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