22 And when he[a] had said this, he breathed on them[b] and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins[c] of any, they are retained.”

Thomas Doubts But Later Believes

24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus,[d] was not with them when Jesus came.

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Footnotes

  1. John 20:22 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 20:22 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. John 20:23 An understood repetition of the phrase from earlier in the verse
  4. John 20:24 The Greek term means “the Twin”