John 20:27 (WEB)
Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
Catechism · 2
“Thomas will also experience the test of doubt and St. Matthew relates that during the risen Lord's last appearance in Galilee "some doubted."” — Catechism footnote: Cf Jn 20:24-27; Mt 28:17.
“He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:30, 39-40, 41-43; Jn 20:20, 27; 21:9, 13-15.
Fathers and councils · 38
Tertullian
“He was truly both seen and heard upon the mount; true and real was the draught of that wine at the marriage of (Cana in) Galilee; true and real also was the touch of the then believing Thomas.” — editor's note: John xx. 27.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.60Book II
“Jesus accordingly, having called Thomas, said, “Reach hither thy finger, and behold My hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless, but believing.”” — editor's note: Cf. John xx. 27.
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“Then saith He to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger,” etc. And in the Gospel of Luke also, while Simon and Cleopas were conversing with each other respecting all that had happened to them, Jesus “drew near, and went with them.” — editor's note: John xx. 26, 27.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“In the same manner, therefore, as Christ did rise in the substance of flesh, and pointed out to His disciples the mark of the nails and the opening in His side (now these are the tokens of that flesh which rose from the dead), so “shall He also,” it is said, “raise us up by His own power.”” — editor's note: John xx. 20, 25–27.
Read the whole comment“…until the third day “in the lower parts of the earth;” then afterwards rising in the flesh, so that He even showed the print of the nails to His disciples, He thus ascended to the Father;—[if all these things occurred, I say], how must these men not be put to confusion, who allege that “the lower parts” refer to…” — editor's note: John xx. 20, 27.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“‘Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into My side, and reach hither thy finger and behold My hands;’ so says God the Word, speaking of His own side and hands, and of Himself as whole man and God together, first affording to the Saints even perception of the…” — editor's note: John xx. 27.
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John Damascene
“And when He had said this He shewed them His hands and His side, and stretched them forward for Thomas to touch.” — editor's note: St. John xx. 27.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…when the disciples were doubting, called Thomas to Him, and said, ‘Come hither handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and blood as ye see me have.’”” — editor's note: Vide John xx. 27 and Luke xxiv. 39. The quotation confuses the words of the resurrection day and of the week after.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Howbeit, even our Lord Jesus Christ Himself willed Himself to be sought after with hands, when to His doubting disciple He showed the scars.…What then, to us belongeth not the seeking with hands?” — editor's note: John xx. 27.
Read the whole comment“Jesus saith unto Him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”” — editor's note: John xx. 26–29.
Read the whole comment“For there was one who did not believe even upon seeing, and would needs handle, and so believe, and said, “I will not believe except I thrust my fingers into the place of the nails, and touch His scars.”” — editor's note: John xx. 25–29.
Read the whole comment“Is not He the same that said to the doubting disciple, “Reach hither thy fingers, and feel the scars”?” — editor's note: John xx. 17, 27.
Read the whole comment““Let me see, let me touch, let me put in my fingers.” “‘Behold,’ saith the Lord, ‘put in thy fingers along My Side, and be not unbelieving.’” — editor's note: John xx. 27.
Read the whole comment“For Thomas also, his fellow-disciple, when he exclaimed, “My Lord and my God,” did not handle the Word, but only His flesh; and laid not his inquisitive hands on the incorporeal nature of God, but on His human body.” — editor's note: Chap. xx. 27, 28.
Read the whole comment“…and your joy no man taketh from you,” are not to be referred to the time of His resurrection, and when He showed them His flesh to be looked at and handled; but rather to that of which He had already said, “He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”” — editor's note: Chap. xx. 27.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For He, having risen, and being desirous to show that that same (body) had been raised which had also died, when His disciples were in doubt, called Thomas to Him, and said, “Reach hither; handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not bone and flesh, as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: John xx. 27; Luke xxiv. 39.
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John Chrysostom
“But to show that He took it again and raised it up, hear what He saith: “Reach hither thy fingers” ( c. xx. 27 ); and, “Behold, a spirit hath not bones and sinews.” ( Luke xxiv. 39.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Let my critics explain to me how Jesus can have entered in through closed doors when He allowed His hands and His side to be handled, and showed that He had bones and flesh, thus proving that His was a true body and no mere phantom of one, and I will explain how the holy Mary can be at once a mother and a virgin.” — editor's note: Joh. xx. 19, 27.
Read the whole comment“How do you explain the fact that Thomas felt the hands of the risen Lord and beheld His side pierced by the spear?” — editor's note: Joh. xx. 26–28.
Read the whole comment“…they thought they saw a phantom, gave them reply,‘Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and blood as ye see Me have’; and specially to Thomas, ‘Put thy finger into My hands, and thy hand into My side, and be not faithless, but believing.’” — editor's note: John xx. 27.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.26On the Making of Man
“…pierced with nails: behold Him Whose side was transfixed with a spear; pass thy fingers through the print of the nails; thrust thy hand into the spear-wound; thou canst surely guess how far within it is likely the point would reach, if thou reckonest the passage inwards by the breadth of the external scar; for the…” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xx. 27
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, I am with them;” showing that most is given, not to the multitude, but to the unanimity of those that pray.” — editor's note: Matt. xviii. 19, 20. [Compare John xx. 26–29.]
Read the whole comment“Jesus saith unto him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.”” — editor's note: John xx. 27–29.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Consider the mercy of the Lord, how for the sake of one soul, He exhibits His wounds. And yet the disciples deserved credit, and He had Himself foretold the event. Notwithstanding, because one person, Thomas, would…
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You ask; If He entered by the shut door, where is the nature of His body? (ubi est modus corporis.) And I reply; If He walked on the sea, where is the weight of His body? The Lord did that as the Lord; and did He,…
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Jesus then comes Himself, and does not wait till Thomas interrogates Him. But to shew that He heard what Thomas said to the disciples, He uses the same words. And first He rebukes him; Then saith He to Thomas, Reach…
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He might, had He pleased, have wiped all spot and trace of wound from His glorified body; but He had reasons for retaining them. He shewed them to Thomas, who would not believe except he saw and touched; and He will…
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We are, as I know not how, afflicted with such love for the blessed martyrs, that we would wish in that kingdom to see on their bodies the marks of those wounds which they have borne for Christ’s sake. And perhaps we…
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Our Lord gave that flesh to be touched which He had introduced through shut doors: wherein two wonderful, and, according to human reason, contradictory things appear, viz. that after the resurrection He had a body…
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Our body also in that resurrection to glory will be subtle by means of the action of the Spirit, but palpable by its true nature, not, as Eutychius says, impalpable, and subtler than the winds and the air.
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Thomas saw and touched the man, and confessed the God whom he neither saw nor touched. By means of the one he believed the other undoubtingly: Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God.
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He who had been before unbelieving, after touching the body shewed himself the best divine; for he asserted the twofold nature and one Person of Christ; by saying, My Lord, the human nature, by saying, My God, the…
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He saith not, Hast touched me, but, hast seen me; the sight being a kind of general sense, and put in the place often of the other four senses; as when we say, Hear, and see how well it sounds; smell, and see how…
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But when the Apostle says, Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, (Heb. 11:1) it is plain that things which are seen, are objects not of faith, but of knowledge. Why then is it…
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He uses the past tense, the future to His knowledge having already taken place by His own predestination.
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If any one then says, Would that I had lived in those times, and seen Christ doing miracles! let him reflect, Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
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Here He means the disciples who had believed without seeing the print of the nails, and His side.
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John having related less than the other Evangelists, adds, And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book. Yet neither did the others relate all, but only…
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