The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:24-29
(5) The manifestation made to anxious skepticism, with the blessing on those who have not seen and yet have believed. read more
John 20:27-29 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:24-29
The second appearance to the disciples. There was one member of the apostolic band still in doubt and darkness. I. THE ABSENCE OF THOMAS FROM THE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH THE LORD . "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came." 1. The character of this disciple, as already made known , left him open to profound discouragement at the death of Christ. "Let us also go, that we may die with him" ( John 11:16 ). 2. His... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:24-29
The unbelief of Thomas. I. THOMAS AND HIS FELLOW - APOSTLES . When they told Thomas they had seen Jesus, and he refused to believe, they must have been rather staggered at first. They would insist on how they had seen Jesus with their own eyes, and heard him with their own ears; not one of them, but all. They would point out how the sepulcher was empty, and how Jesus had said that it behooved him to be raised from the dead. They might ask whether Thomas imagined that they were... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:27
Then ( εἶτα , not οὖν ; delude, Vulgate; darnach, Luther) saith he to Thomas, as though he had read his heart and sounded the depth of his complicated conflict between hope and fear, despair and love, and moreover intimating the fact that he had heard his disciple's protestations, as well as mercifully appreciated his genuine difficulties, and not unnatural hesitation, Reach hither thy finger, that organ with which thou wouldest test the reality of my being. Do what thou wilt. ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:28
£ Thomas answered and said to him . Before, so far as we know, any gesture or effort was made on his part to accept the tests which had been so rashly demanded, but so graciously offered. He already found evidence which was far more efficacious than that which he in gross and sensuous fashion had thought indispensable for his peculiarly constituted mind. Before doing more than fill his hungry eyes with these identifying signs of the Lord's actual objective presence, he did in reality touch... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:28
The cry of faith and joy. If St. John begins his Gospel with a clear and full declaration of our Lord's Deity, he here towards its close gives his readers to understand that his conviction was shared by others who, like himself, had the advantage of prolonged and continuous fellowship with Jesus. I. THE WITNESS OF THIS CRY TO THE NATURE AND AUTHORITY OF CHRIST . 1. This witness is all the more important , because 2. This witness was full and explicit.... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:29
Jesus saith to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed. £ Our Lord does not bid him rise, nor say, as the angel did to John in the Apocalypse, "Worship God;" nor did he reject the homage which is here so grandly paid; but he describes this very state of mind which induced the disciple to say, "My Lord and my God!" as that high, holy acquisition which throughout his ministry he had treated as the main, prime condition of all spiritual blessings. "Thou hast believed," said he, "and... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:29
The blessedness of faith. This saying of Christ was not so much a reproach directed against Thomas, as it was a comfort and benediction for the Church of the future. The apostles had their advantages, in that they had personal intercourse with Jesus. Yet we are not without our counterbalancing advantages, in that we can believe in him whom we have not seen. Let Christ's faithful disciples and friends take to themselves this consolation, and let them be assured that wise and benevolent... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 20:28
My Lord and my God - In this passage the name God is expressly given to Christ, in his own presence and by one of his own apostles. This declaration has been considered as a clear proof of the divinity of Christ, for the following reasons:1. There is no evidence that this was a mere expression, as some have supposed, of surprise or astonishment.2. The language was addressed to Jesus himself - “Thomas ...said unto him.”3. The Saviour did not reprove him or check him as using any improper... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - John 20:1-31
2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event in the history of the world is assumed and asserted to have taken place. Heathen and foes admit the fact of the death of Jesus; the evidence is overwhelming, multiform, sufficient to establish itself to the ordinary reason of mankind. It is a matter of indubitable history. The proof was given to all the world; but... read more