John 20:17-31 ▼

17 Jesus says to her, “Do not touch Me, for not yet have I ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your? Father, and to My God and your? God.’”

18 Mary Magdalene comes, bringing word to the disciples: “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.

19 Therefore, it being evening the same day, the first of the week, and the doors where the disciples were having been shut because of the fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and He says to them, “Peace to you?.”

20 And having said this, He showed both His hands and His side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord.

21 Therefore Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you?. As the Father has sent Me forth, I also send you?.”

22 And having said this, He breathed on them, and He says to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

23 If you? might forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you? might retain any, they are retained.”

24 But Thomas, one of the Twelve, the one called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

25 Therefore the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the mark of the nails, and I put my finger into the mark of the nails, and I put my hands into His side, I will never believe.”

26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them, the doors having been shut. Jesus comes, and He stood in the midst and said, “Peace to you?.”

27 Then He says to Thomas, “Bring your finger here and see My hands, and bring your hand and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.”

28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

29 Jesus says to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are those not having seen, and having believed.”

30 Therefore indeed Jesus also did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.

31 But these have been written so that you? may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, believing, you? may have life in His name.