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25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”
26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!”
27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and areach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be bunbelieving, but believing.”  
28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Jesus said to him,1 “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. aBlessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  

That You May Believe

30 And atruly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;  
31 abut these are written that byou may believe that Jesus cis the Christ, the Son of God, dand that believing you may have life in His name. 
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John 20:27

Then saith he to Thomas (eita legei tw Qomai). Jesus turns directly to Thomas as if he had come expressly for his sake. He reveals his knowledge of the doubt in the mind of Thomas and mentions the very tests that he had named (John 20:25).

Be not faithless (mh ginou apistov). Present middle imperative of ginomai in prohibition, "stop becoming disbelieving." The doubt of Thomas in the face of the witness of the others was not a proof of his superior intelligence. Sceptics usually pose as persons of unusual mentality. The medium who won Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to spiritualism has confessed that it was all humbug, but he deceived the gullible novelist. But Thomas had carried his incredulity too far. Note play on apistov (disbelieving) and pistov (believing).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 20:27:

John 19:34
Acts 1:3
Acts 26:8
1 Corinthians 7:12

 

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