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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus,.... The person here spoken of, is described by his Hebrew name Thomas, and his Greek one Didymus, which both signify a twin; and perhaps he was one. It was common with the Jews to have two names, a Jewish and a Gentile one; by the one they went in the land of Israel, and by the other when without the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. Possibly he did not go out of an evening; it may be that he was a half-dead sort of Christian, like a great many people are in London. They think they have done finely if they go out on the Sabbath morning, but the evening, — well, it is too cold for them, or they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. Perhaps he lived a long way off, or else, being rather slow, he had stayed away, doubting, and fearing, and questioning, and he had not got there in time; anyhow, he was not there. “Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is,” for it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.” Very likely, loving Jesus, as he evidently did, very much, Thomas was broken-hearted when he found that his Master was dead; so, when his fellow-disciples told him that Jesus was alive again, he could not believe it, he felt that the news was too good to be true. He...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The other disciples therefore said unto him,.... Some time in the same week, as they had opportunity of seeing him, with great joy, and full assurance of faith in Christ's resurrection: we have seen the Lord; they had not only the testimony of the women, and the declaration of the angels, but they saw him with their own eyes, and beheld even the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. There is something good about that declaration of Thomas, for a man is not bound to believe merely on...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. Dogged, obstinate unbelief. Some have said he was a large-hearted man, who investigated truth. I do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. “We have seen the Lord; there is no mistake about the matter, for we have all seen him.” And thus, with loving, anxious desire, they tried to cheer him, and to make him participate in the gladness which they themselves had enjoyed. Dear friends, always look after your weak...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And after eight days,.... That is, after another week, the same day a week later, which taking in the day in which Christ rose and appeared to Mary Magdalene, and his disciples, and the day in which he now appeared to the disciples with Thomas, made eight days; a like way of speaking see in Lu 9:28 compared with Matthew 17:1. And Dr. Hammond has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. That was an improvement upon the meeting of the previous Lord’s-day evening; Thomas had learnt by this time what he had lost the week before, so he was present on this occasion.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Picking out the one who most needed to be addressed, like the Good Shepherd seeking out the sick sheep first: “Then saith he to Thomas,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 unto you. Then said he to Thomas. For our Lord has a way of making personal application of his word. He looks after the sheep that is sick, and severs it from the flock, that he may deal with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: That is better. His love brought him out, you see, away from himself; and it often happens that, by getting a man away from himself, we get him away from his worst enemy. Joh_20:26. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then saith he to Thomas,.... For whose sake he chiefly came, and whom he at once singled out from the rest, and called by name in the most friendly manner, without upbraiding or reproaching him for not believing the testimony that had been given him: reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thine hand and thrust it into my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. It has been well observed that Thomas was the first person who ever proved to himself the Deity of Christ from the exhibition of his wounds. There is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. And whether Thomas did put his finger into the print of his nails or not, we cannot tell. Everyone may think as he likes about that. He may have done...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 faithless, but believing. Our dear and condescending Master would give to his feeble, and somewhat petulant disciple, all the proofs he had himself asked to have. He shall have evidence clear as noonday if he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 Lord, as he was both by creation and redemption; and God, of which he was fully assured from his omniscience, which he had given a full proof of, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Leaping out of the slough of doubt, on to the rock of confidence, by a single spring, and getting further, perhaps, than others had done who had before outstripped him. He inferred the Deity of Christ from his wounds and his resurrection, — a grand chain of argument of which we have not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; which carries in it a tacit and gentle reproof for his unbelief, and suggests, that if he had not seen, he would not...