Thomas

THE QUESTION

A week after Easter, one disciple finally saw the risen Jesus for himself. Who exclaimed, “My Lord and my God!”?

A) Peter

B) John

C) Thomas ✓

D) Philip

A closer look

Thomas wasn’t with the others the first time the risen Jesus appeared to them. When they told him, he said, “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25).

A week later, Jesus came again and said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see My hands” (John 20:27). Then He added words for everyone who would believe in Him later, you included: “blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).

Peter is a natural pick: he was the one who said, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). But the words in that locked room were Thomas’s.

The wounds Jesus showed Thomas are the ones Isaiah wrote about in today’s verse: “by His wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).

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