Give thy hand and put it into my side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing (John 20:27). Jesus bared His pierced side, the wound of which was so great that you could put a hand in it. Thomas, having already made sure that the hands of Jesus standing before him were really pierced through, stretched out his hand to the wound on his side, felt it and, falling down before Him, exclaimed: "

You are my Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). Thomas was the first of all people to recognize Jesus Christ as God.

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You have believed (Christ says to him),

because he saw Me; but it was necessary to believe in My Resurrection on the basis of all that the prophets had said about Me and all that I had done; and blessed are those who do not see Me now risen, and believe in Me;

blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed" (John 20:29)."

Concluding the story of Christ's appearance to the Apostles in the presence of Thomas, the Evangelist and Apostle John says:

Jesus did many other miracles before His disciples, which are not written in this book. And these things are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing ye may have life in his name.

80. Confusing the pre-eternal procession of the Spirit according to His divinity from the Father with His temporal mission to the beneficent people.

CHAPTER 47. The appearance of Christ to the Apostles in Galilee. Ascension of the Lord

The appearance of Christ in the presence of Thomas followed at the end of the Jewish Passover. Crowds of pilgrims moved to their homes, and the Apostles also went to their Galilee; they went there also because Jesus had told them to assemble there, since they had been promised that there He would appear to them.

Yes, in His farewell conversation with the Apostles, just before entering Gethsemane, Jesus said:

but after my resurrection I will go before you in Galilee (Matt. 26:32). After this, the angel who appeared to the myrrh-bearing women after the Resurrection of Jesus said: