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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. These were the marks to help their recognition of him. These were the memorials to excite their gratitude. These, too, were the tokens of his condescension; for a man does not show his wounds to any but to those whom he loves; “He showed unto them his hands and his side.” You...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. “I am the Messiah, the sent One; you, too, shall be my missionaries, my sent ones;” it is but another form of the same word.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus to them again. Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. Thus did Jesus Christ support and make for ever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. “You are to go forth and to bless the world, even as I have done. My Father hath sent me; and ‘even so send I you.’ You are to be my delegates, to carry on my service; my commissioned officers, to go forth to conflict and to conquest in my name.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. That is to say, “As you proclaim my gospel, I will back up your message; when you preach of pardoning blood, I will make it efficacious. When...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. This is as much as for Christ to say, “I will back up your ministry. When you preach that men are condemned for sin of which they have not...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...