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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 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.
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' crucifixion wounds.
The disciples kept telling (Greek imperfect word: elegon, in the sense of "attempted to tell" [2]) their vision of Jesus ("We have seen the Lord"), just like what Mary did in John 20:18. [3] Thomas has shown his difficulties to understand Jesus in John 11:16 and John 14:15, and this time he hesitated when confronted with the resurrection ...
The Bible suggests that post-resurrection (yet pre-ascension) physical contact with Jesus is possible, for in John 21:17 Jesus told Mary Magdalene: "Don't touch Me for I have not yet ascended to the Father"". In John 20:27 Jesus ordered Thomas the Apostle: "Put your hand into My side". But the Bible does not mention if Thomas followed that command.
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.
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.
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