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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.
The Eastern Orthodox Church views Thomas's initial doubt much less negatively, even praising it in the Vespers service on Thomas Sunday, stating, "O good unbelief of Thomas!" [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This verse is often used to support the notion that the Bible teaches to value faith over evidence, and is why many Christians continue to shame Thomas ...
The main source is the apocryphal Acts of Thomas, sometimes called by its full name The Acts of Judas Thomas, written circa 180–230 AD. [79] [80] These are generally regarded by various Christian religions as apocryphal, or even heretical. The two centuries that lapsed between the life of the apostle and the recording of this work cast doubt ...
The Gospel of Thomas is a non-canonical [1] sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture.
Mary earlier did not recognize Jesus. When he addresses her by name she quickly realizes who it is. Some scholars link this to John 10:3, which states that "the good shepherd calleth to him by name every sheep of his flock", arguing that Jesus using Mary's name had deep powers. Some see Mary's transition from ignorance to worship as a metaphor ...
R. Hepburn posits that while Matthew 28:9 records Mary Magdalene and the other Mary taking hold of Jesus’ feet and worshiping Him after His resurrection, the encounter recorded in John 20:17 is a different (likely earlier) encounter when Mary Magdalene is alone with the risen Christ.
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub John 20:24
Jesus granted Thomas's demands to verify his crucifixion, marks: [3] the marks of the nails in Jesus' hands and the pierced hole on his side . [4] It surely shocked Thomas that Jesus knows exactly his problem as every letter of his requirements for physical verification ( John 20:25 ) is met and spoken back to him with uncanny precision.