A week later, on the eighth day after the Resurrection of Christ, the disciples again gathered together in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were locked, as they had been the first time. Jesus Christ entered the house, with the doors closed, stood in the midst of the disciples and said: "Peace be unto you!"

Then, turning to Thomas, he said to him: "Put your finger hither, and see my hands, give your hand, and put it into my side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."

Then the Apostle Thomas exclaimed: "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus Christ said to him, "Thou hast believed, because thou hast seen Me, but blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."

NOTE: See in the Gospel of John, ch. 20, 26-29.

The Appearance of Jesus Christ to the Disciples at the Sea of Tiberias

and the restoration of the abdicated Peter to the apostolate

In accordance with the command of Jesus Christ, His disciples went to Galilee. There the eyes were busy with their everyday affairs. One day, Peter, Thomas, Nathanael (Bartholomew), the sons of Zebedee (James and John) and two other of His disciples were fishing all night in the Sea of Tiberias (Lake of Gennesaret) and caught nothing. And when morning came, Jesus Christ was standing on the shore. But the disciples did not recognize Him.

Jesus Christ said to them: "Children! Do you have any food?"

They said, "No."

Then Jesus Christ said to them: "Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will catch."

The disciples threw the net on the right side of the boat and could no longer pull it out of the water because of the multitude of fish.

Then John said to Peter, "This is the Lord."

Peter, hearing that it was the Lord, girded himself with a garment, because he was naked, and threw himself into the sea, and swam to the shore, to Jesus Christ. And the other disciples sailed in a boat, dragging a net with fish behind them, since they were not far from the shore. When they came ashore, they saw a lit fire and fish and bread lying on it.