17Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to me, because I have not yet returned to my Father. Go to my disciples and tell them, ‘I am about to return to my Father and your Father, to the one who is my God and your God’.”
18So Mary went to where we disciples were and told us that she had seen the Lord alive again. She also told us what Jesus said that she should tell us.
19On that Sunday evening we disciples gathered together. The doors were locked { We locked the doors} because we were afraid that the Jewish leaders SYN might arrest us. Suddenly Jesus appeared miraculously and stood among us! He said to us, “May God give you inner peace!”
20After he said that, he showed us the wounds in his hands and his side. We were very happy when we saw the Lord!
21Jesus said to us again, “May God give you peace! Just like my Father sent me, now I am sending you to proclaim my message.”
22After saying that, he breathed on us and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
23If you forgive people for their having sinned, God will already have forgiven them. If you do not forgive them, God has not forgiven them.”
24One of us disciples, Thomas, the one whom we called The Twin, was not with us when Jesus appeared to us.
25When the rest of us told him that we had seen the Lord, he said to us, “If I do not see the marks of the nails in his hands and put my fingers in the place where the nails were, and put my hands into the place in his side where the soldier thrust the spear, I will certainly not believe that he was the one you saw!”
John 20
John 20:17-25