23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins[a] of any, they are retained.”

Thomas Doubts But Later Believes

24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus,[b] was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe!”

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Footnotes

  1. John 20:23 An understood repetition of the phrase from earlier in the verse
  2. John 20:24 The Greek term means “the Twin”