John 20:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus saith unto him,Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. ”

• John 20:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Because thou hast seen me - Because you have looked upon my body, and seen the proofs that I am the same Saviour that was crucified. Jesus here approves the faith of Thomas, but more highly comme...

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• John 20:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (8) Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed. (8) True faith depends upon the mouth of God, and not...

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• John 20:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Thomas. All the texts omit. that, &c.. who saw not and believed. See John 4:48 . Mat 16:1. 1 Corinthians 1:22 . Those who crave for miracles and signs to-day will have them, but they will...

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• John 20:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. Because thou hast seen me, Thomas. Christ blames nothing in Thomas, but that he was so slow to believe, that he needed to be violently drawn to faith by the experience of the senses; whi...

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• John 20:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Thomas - This word is omitted by almost every MS., version...

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• John 20:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Because thou hast seen me, &c.— The word seen, according to the Hebrew idiom, is often applied to the other senses; and therefore may here signify that Thomas had the unitedtestimony of all h...

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• John 20:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Jesus saith unto him, [Thomas]. The word enclosed in b...

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• John 20:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. — The name “Thomas” is omitted in all the better MSS., and the order of the other words suggests that they should be rea...

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• John 20:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• John 20:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• John 20:29 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE BEATITUDE OF FAITH ‘Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.’ John 20:29 Let us ask wherein lies the blessedness of faith, and what are the claims that it makes upon u...

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• John 20:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas ,.... The word Thomas is omitted in the Alexandrian copy, and in Beza's ancient copy, and in some others, and in the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. Because tho...

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• John 20:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Ver. 29. Blessed are they that have not seen ] We see...

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• John 20:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• John 20:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Incredulity of Thomas.       26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the do...

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• John 20:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou believest that I am risen from the dead upon the testimony of thy senses; thou doest well in that: thou hast seen, thou hast felt me; but it is a more noble faith to believe without any such sen...

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• John 20:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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.

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• John 20:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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,...

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• John 20:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• John 20:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• John 20:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• John 20:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• John 20:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The unbelief of Thomas and the second appearance to the Eleven:

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• John 20:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:8 ; 2 Corinthians 5:7 ; Hebrews 11:1 ; Hebrews 11:27 ; Hebrews 11:39 ; John 20:8 ; John 4:48 ; Luke 1:45

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• John 20:29 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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