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.
John 20
John 20:21-30