John 20:25

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Summary

The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

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and these things having said, she turned backward, and seeth Jesus standing, and she had not known that it is Jesus.

this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, 'We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)

That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, 'The Lord it is!' Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea;

and they, having heard that he is alive, and was seen by her, did not believe.

saying -- 'The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

'This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest,

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,

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and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord.

They said therefore to him, 'What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear to my voice.

And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.

Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

'Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him;

And he said unto them, 'O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'