John 20:28 (WEB)
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
Catechism · 1
“It thus takes on a connotation of love and affection that remains proper to the Christian tradition: "It is the Lord!"” — Catechism footnote: Jn 20:28, 21:7.
Fathers and councils · 36
Tertullian
“No king, with Him, finds greater favour, no barbarian lesser joy; no dignities or pedigrees enjoy distinctions of merit; to all He is equal, to all King, to all Judge, to all “God and Lord.”” — editor's note: Comp. John xx. 28.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…a certain disciple of His, doubting and desiring to handle His scars, and when he had handled the scars and had cried out, saying, “My Lord and my God,” seeing His disciple doubting, and looking to the whole world about to believe, “Because thou hast seen Me,” He saith, “thou hast believed: blessed are they…” — editor's note: John xx. 28.
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“And one of the disciples also, handling His scars, exclaimed, “My Lord and my God!”” — editor's note: John xx. 28
Read the whole comment“It was not enough for their eyes that they had seen Him, unless their hands also were applied to His limbs, and the scars of His recent wounds were touched; that that disciple who was in doubt, might cry out suddenly when he had touched and recognised the scars, “My Lord and my God.”” — editor's note: John xx. 28.
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.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Let them therefore confess, even they who previously denied that the Crucified was God, that they have erred; for the divine Scriptures bid them, and especially Thomas, who, after seeing upon Him the print of the nails, cried out ‘My Lord and my God!’” — editor's note: John xx. 28.
Read the whole comment“But if they are in doubt whether He is God at all, let them reverence Thomas, who handled the Crucified and pronounced Him Lord and God.” — editor's note: John xx. 28.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“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.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Thus too, the thrice blessed Thomas, when he had put his hand on the flesh of the Lord, called Him Lord and God, saying “My Lord and my God.”” — editor's note: John xx. 28
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Ambrose of Milan
“You find the Son to be both Lord and God, as you have read in the Gospel, that, when Thomas had touched the side of Christ, he said, “My Lord and my God.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 28.
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John Cassian
““My Lord,” he said, “and my God.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 28.
Read the whole comment“So Thomas when he touched the flesh, believed that he had touched God saying, “My Lord and my God.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 28.
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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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But in opposition to all these, do you reckon up for me the expressions which make for your ignorant arrogance, such as “My God and your God,” or greater, or created, or made, or sanctified; Add, if you like, Servant and Obedient and Gave and Learnt, and was commanded, was sent, can do nothing of…” — editor's note: John xx. 17, 28.
Read the whole comment“…nor delighting in smooth things, but handling them as is worthy of Him, the Word That was made flesh for us; and so far following the example of Thomas, not pampering them with dainties and sauces, those brethren of a more baleful pampering, but tasting and learning that the Lord is good, with the better and…” — editor's note: John xx. 28.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“He is also Eliud, that is, ‘He is my God,’ according to that, “My Lord, and my God.” [John 20:28]” — the author cites it
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“…he doubted the more deeply did he believe the effect of the Lord’s passion, and the mystery of His Divinity, which forced him to cry, “My Lord and my God.” [John 20:28] Matthew is interpreted, ‘given,’ because by the Lord’s bounty he was made an Evangelist of a Publican.” — the author cites it
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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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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in Catechism §448.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
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Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.15.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in Catechism §448.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 10:1–4 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 10:1–4 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 10:1–4 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §448.
Cited together in Catechism §448.
Cited together in Catechism §448.
Cited together in Catechism §448.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).