Jesus's appearance to thomas John 20:24-29

Jesus’s Appearance to Thomas in 20:24-29

After the resurrection of Jesus, the disciples were undergoing so much confusion, trouble and doubt to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. Unlike other gospels John presents us a more decent description of Jesus's appearance to one of the disciples (Thomas). The seeing and believing incident happened to prove the difference between hearing and believing with seeing and believing. It’s really amazing how Jesus appeared to all the disciples in the absence of Thomas and then later on the disciples shared the news of seeing Jesus to Thomas but he didn't believe it because he wanted to prove by seeing all by himself. Later on Jesus appears in Thomas’s house and the question therefore lie: Did Jesus really wants to prove himself to Thomas in the presence of the rest of the disciples or did he just want to have a moment of time together with all his disciples before going to heaven?

As named by many Doubting Thomas’s’ skepticism of not believing his fellow disciples that Jesus had resurrected some how becomes a funnel for Christian faith when we look at our daily lives today. It wasn’t a sin for him not to believe because it shows that he could not be easily convinced which I would relate to the fact that there are false prophets who pretend to proclaim the word of God even when they are anti-Christ. What I am trying to say is that Thomas was blessed because he believed on the basis of Testimony. When we evidently look back at how Jesus entered the locked house it proves his own saying in the book of Johns 10:7,9 where he claims himself to be the gate. “Jesus does not suggest that Thomas needs to stop doubting, rather he identifies Thomas’ state as disbelief. Jesus calls Thomas to move fr...

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