Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God. This was after he had fully ascertained that it was indeed Christ Himself, who had received these wounds on the cross, and who was now alive again. See Tertullian, de Anima, cap. xxviii.; S. Ambrose, in Ps. xliii. (xliv.); S. Hilary, de Trinit. Lib. iii.; S. Cyril, xii. 58; S. Gregory, Hom. xxvi .
Verse 28. _THOMAS ANSWERED_, c.] Those who deny the Godhead of Christ would have us to believe that these words are an _exclamation_ of Thomas, made through surprise, and that they were addressed to...
MY LORD AND MY GOD - In this passage the name God is expressly given to Christ, in his own presence and by one of his own apostles. This declaration has been considered as a clear proof of the divinit...
CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The Empty Sepulchre. (John 20:1 .)_ 2. The Risen One and Mary of Magdala. (John 20:11 .) 3. The Gathered Company and He in the midst. (John 20:19 .) 4. The Second Time. ...
THE COMING TO THE DISCIPLES. The first Christian Sunday is spent in Jerusalem, where the disciples are in hiding. The interpretation of Mark 14:50 as implying an immediate flight of the apostles to Ga...
THOMAS ANSWERED,... MY LORD AND MY GOD. Thomas did not need to apply the test. Every shadow of doubt passed away, and from out of his full and astonished heart came forth the ejaculation, which was....
But Thomas, who is called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples told him: "We have seen the Lord." He said to them: "Unless I see the print of the nails in...
BEWILDERED LOVE (John 20:1-10)...
MY LORD AND MY GOD. First testimony to the Deity of the risen Lord. Possibly Thomas was using the words of Psalms 86:15, which in the Septuagint read _Kurie ho Theos,_ and claiming forgiveness for his...
_And Thomas answered_ Omit -and." This answer and Christ's comment, -because thou hast _seen_," seem to shew that S. Thomas did not use the test which he had demanded. In accordance with his despondin...
28. Not merely the sight of Jesus but the conviction of His omniscience overwhelms S. Thomas, as it did Nathanael (John 1:50), and the Samaritan woman (John 4:29). His faith rises with a bound to its...
THE MANIFESTATION TO S. THOMAS AND OTHERS Peculiar to S. John...
Ver 26. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you. 27. Then says he to Thomas...
_JESUS APPEARED TO HIS DISCIPLES AND THOMAS IS PRESENT -- JOHN 20:24-31:_ The reason is unknown, but for whatever reason Thomas was not present the first time Jesus appeared to the disciples after His...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать....
DISCOURSE: 1732 THOMAS’S UNBELIEF REPROVED John 20:27. _Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithl...
THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID, &C.— Though the nominative often occurs for the vocative, it is the former case which is used here, the words συ ει, _thou art,_ being understood. To this the context agrees;...
THE APPEARANCE TO THOMAS _Text: John 20:26-29_ 26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, P...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 20:24-31 Below is an Analysis of our present passage:— The first time Thomas comes before us is in chapter 11. At the close of 10 we read how the enemies of Chr...
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. [AND]. This "And" is evidently no part of the genuine text. THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, MY LORD AND MY GOD. That Thomas did not d...
27 While we hardly care to sympathize with doubting Thomas, yet we feel grateful for the unanswerable evidence his case called forth. The reality of our Lord's resurrection is put beyond all question...
Second appearance to the Apostles. Climax of the Gospel in the Confession of Thomas. 26. After eight days] i.e. on the next Sunday, both Sundays being counted in. Here we have the beginning of the obs...
LIFE] i.e. eternal life. THROUGH HIS NAME] i.e. through union with Him as the incarnate Son of God. His 'name' is His nature as the God-Man. Here the Gospel originally closed. MY LORD AND MY GOD] T...
THE RESURRECTION 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; for th...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! 20:1-10 V1 On Sunday morning, Mary (who was from Magdala) went to the grave. It was very early a...
THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM. — It is implied that he did not make use of the tests which his Master offered him, but that he at once expressed the fulness of his conviction. This is confirmed by...
XXIII. _ THOMAS' TEST._ "When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the...
Grotius, following Tertullian, Ambrose, Cyril and others, is of opinion that Thomas availed himself of the offered test: surely it is psychologically more probable that the test he had insisted on as...
_Manifestations of the risen Lord to the disciples, first without Thomas, then with Thomas_....
OVERCOMING DOUBT John 20:26-31 How great the anguish of Thomas during that week, as he tossed between hope and fear, and saw on other faces the light which he might not share! At length Jesus came, a...
This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, an...
THOMAS IS CONVINCED John 20:24-29. “ _And Thomas_, _one of the twelve_, _called Didymus_, _was not with them when Jesus came. Then the other disciples continued to say to him_, _We have seen the Lord....
III. THE SECOND APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES (THOMAS): JOHN 20:24-29. A last principle of unbelief still remained in the circle of the Twelve. It is extirpated, and the development of faith reaches it...
1. The appearance of Jesus when the doors were shut (John 20:19; John 20:26) is a point which we are unable to explain. The evangelist has not stated the facts of the case with sufficient definiteness...
FIFTH PART: 20:1-29. THE RESURRECTION. The fourth part of the Gospel has shown us the Jewish people carrying _unbelief_ with reference to Jesus even to complete apostasy, and consummating this spirit...
“ _Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God!_ 29. _Jesus says to him_, _Because thou hast seen me_, _thou hast believed. Blessed are they who, without having seen, have believed._ ” What pr...
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. (25) The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in...
In John 20:1-31 is the resurrection, and this in a remarkable light. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's...
In chapter 20, we have, in a summary of several of the leading facts among those which took place after the resurrection of Jesus, a picture of all the consequences of that great event, in immediate c...
AND THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... Without examining his hands and side, and as astonished at his condescension and grace, and ashamed of his unbelief: MY LORD AND MY GOD; he owns him to be L...
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Ver. 28. _My Lord and my God_] This is true faith indeed, that individuates God, and appropriates him to itself. _a_ Were it not for this po...
_Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger_, &c. Thus our Lord lets them see, that he was not unacquainted with what had lately passed among them in his absence, and at the same time takes an ef...
MY LORD AND MY GOD; this was addressed to Jesus Christ, and was commended by him as a just expression of true faith. Jesus Christ approves of being addressed by his people as their Lord and their God....
AND THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, MY LORD AND MY GOD....
The unbelief of Thomas and the second appearance to the Eleven:...
THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incredu...
26-29 That one day in seven should be religiously observed, was an appointment from the beginning. And that, in the kingdom of the Messiah, the first day of the week should be that solemn day, was po...
MY LORD, to whom I wholly yield and give up my self; AND MY GOD, in whom I believe. It is observed, that this is the first time that in the Gospel the name of _God_ is given to Christ; he was now by h...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans and immediately they believed that He was Christ. Wherefore Thomas also says to Him, "My Lord, and my God."[24] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews No king, with...
John 20:28 And G2532 Thomas G2381 answered G611 (G5662) and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) Him G846 My...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES INCLUDING THOMAS (JOHN 20:24). Thomas had been absent at Jesus' first appearance to the Apostles, but he too was now to see the risen Lord....
‘And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas was with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood among them and said, “Peace to you.” Then he says to Thomas, “Reach out he...
We have here a second appearance of Jesus to the disciples, distinguished from that coming immediately before, inasmuch as it seems especially intended to set forth the blessedness of those who believ...
John 20:28. THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, MY LORD AND MY GOD. He passes at once from the depths of his despondency and hesitation to the most exalted faith. The words are certainly addressed to J...
MY LORD AND MY GOD (Hο κυριος μου κα ο θεος μου). Not exclamation, but address, the vocative case though the form of the nominative, a very common thing in the _Koine_. Thomas was wholly convinced...
MY LORD AND MY GOD The deity of Jesus Christ is declared in Scripture: (1) In the intimations and explicit predictions of the Old Testament. (a) The theophanies intimate the appearance of God in hu...
John 20:26 I. The meeting renewed. I think that Dr. Vaughan has somewhere suggested, that although we have no record of the circumstance, it is possible that Christ, when with the disciples on the fir...
John 20:24 Thomas I. Thomas was evidently a man of reserved nature a melancholy man haunted, as we should say, by a painful sense of his own individuality. He could not look at the bright side of thi...
John 20:24 The Incredulity of Thomas. The case of Thomas is I. A most instructive instance of the exercise and expression of a true, loving, affectionate, appropriating faith. It is outgoing, self-f...
John 20:28 I. We are, I think, hardly apt to be enough aware how much of all our Christian faith and hope must rest on the reality of our Lord's resurrection. It is, in the first place, the fulfilment...
John 20:19. _Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and sai...
John 20:18. _Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her._ She was a true woman one whom they had known well enough to be quite...
John 20:11. _But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the othe...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. CHARACTERS: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, two angels, Jesus, disciples, Thomas. CONCLUSION: He who gave His life as a ransom resumed His life again by the mighty pow...
John 20:2. _They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre._ After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that John...
_But Thomas, called Didymus … was not with them when Jesus came_ ST. Thomas Mark I. HOW MUCH CHRISTIANS MAY LOSE BY NOT REGULARLY ATTENDING THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD’S PEOPLE. 1. Thomas was absent wh...
_And Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God_ MY LORD AND MY GOD Let us consider I. THE EXCLAMATION OF THOMAS. It is as much as a man could say if he wished to assert dogmatically that...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:1 Chapter John 20:1 covers the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial: the empty tomb, the risen Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene, and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples...
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,...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 20:19. EVENING OF THAT DAY.—_I.e._ the day on which our Lord rose from the dead.—WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT.—St. John notices this fact, not only to show how terror...
EXPOSITION JOHN 20:1 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to John, chapter 20. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she saw the stone was...
1 Timothy 3:16; Acts 7:59; Acts 7:60; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 40:9;...
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wrapped arou...
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 disciple...
These words may be considered two ways. 1. As an abrupt speech, importing. vehement admiration of Christ's mercy towards him, and of his own stupidity and dullness to believe. Learn hence, that the...