“ And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. ”
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 di...
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...
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 fo...
DISCOURSE: 1732 THOMAS’S UNBELIEF REPROVED John 20:27-28 . 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 no...
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Thomas answered, etc. - Those who deny the Godhead of Christ would have us to believe that these words are an exclamation of Thomas, made th...
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...
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 d...
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; fo...
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...
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...
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 c...
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, a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 incr...
The Incredulity of Thomas. 26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the do...
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...
Jesus Appears To The Disciples Including Thomas ( John 20:24-29 ). Thomas had been absent at Jesus' first appearance to the Apostles, but he too was now to see the risen Lord.
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 ho...
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 o...
John 20:24-29 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,...
John 20:11-12 . 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 th...
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 Jo...
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 ab...
EXPOSITION John 20:1-43 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 gre...
The unbelief of Thomas and the second appearance to the Eleven:
1 Timothy 3:16 ; Acts 7:59 ; Acts 7:60 ; Isaiah 25:9 ; Isaiah 40:9-11 ; Isaiah 7:14 ; Isaiah 9:6 ; Jeremiah 23:5 ; Jeremiah 23:6 ; John 20:16 ; John 20:31 ; John 5:23 ; John 9:35-38 ; L...
The Resurrection of Christ John 20:1-31 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 wra...
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 disci...