John 20:19-31

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!”

²⁶A week later we were in the house again. This time Thomas was with us. Although the doors had been locked { we had locked the doors}, Jesus again appeared miraculously and stood among us. He said, “May God give peace to you!”

²⁷Then he showed Thomas his hands and said to him, “Put your finger here! Look at the wounds in my hands! Reach out your hand and put it in the wound in my side! Stop doubting LIT/DOU! Instead, believe that I am alive again!”

²⁸Thomas answered him, “ You are truly my Lord and my God!”

²⁹Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed that about me. But God is truly pleased with those who have believed that about me, even though they have not seen me!”

³⁰We disciples saw Jesus perform many other miracles, but I have not written about them in this book.

³¹But these that I have written about, I have written about them in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, ◄the Son of God/the man who is also God►, and in order that you may have eternal life by trusting ◄in him /in what he has done for you► MTY.