¹⁸ Mary Magdalene^(A) went to the disciples^(B) with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

¹⁹ On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders,^(C) Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace^(D) be with you!”^{(E) 20} After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.^(F) The disciples were overjoyed^(G) when they saw the Lord.

²¹ Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you!^(H) As the Father has sent me,^(I) I am sending you.”^{(J) 22} And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.^{(K) 23} If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”^(L)

Jesus Appears to Thomas

²⁴ Now Thomas^(M) (also known as Didymus^[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. ²⁵ So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side,^(N) I will not believe.”^(O)

²⁶ A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace^(P) be with you!”^{(Q) 27} Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”^(R)

²⁸ Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

²⁹ Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed;^(S) blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”^(T)