| John 20:28 | |
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 Portland Stone carving showing St.Thomas kneeling to the risen Christ, by Philip Pape in 1956. St.Thomas' church. | |
| Book | Gospel of John |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |
John 20:28 is the twenty-eighth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It is part of a description of what the book says is Jesus' reappearance to the disciples, including Thomas, eight days after his resurrection.
The original Koine Greek, according to the Textus Receptus, reads: [1]
The transliteration of the original Koine Greek to Latin script is:
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as:
The modern World English Bible translates the passage as:
For a collection of other versions see BibleHub John 20:28
In John 13:13–14 Jesus used the term 'teacher' and 'lord' as synonyms, but here 'my Lord' is designated to the risen Christ, and 'my God' resumes Jesus' description in the Prologue as 'God' (John 1:1, 18). [2] This is the only time in the four canonical gospels that Jesus is addressed as God. [3]
Suetonius records that the Roman emperor Domitian (AD 81–96) wished to be addressed as dominus et deus noster, "our Lord and God", [4] so the statement in this verse 'may on a secondary level be designed to counter Roman emperor worship'. [5]
The declension of the Greek words 'Lord' (Κύριός) and 'God' (Θεός) used in this verse is in the nominative case - the one that marks the subject of a verb. Greek, like Latin, has a vocative case for addressing someone directly. In the New Testament, the vocative case of the words 'Lord' (Κύριε) and 'God' (θεέ) is used 120 times and twice, respectively. [6] [7] Therefore, an argument could be made on syntactical grounds that Thomas's expression was an exclamation of astonishment spoken to Jesus but actually directed to God, and that John would have had to use the vocative case instead if Thomas's words were directed to Jesus. [8] However there are many objections to this. Besides the explicit phrase “said to Him”, Murray J. Harris, for example, claims that we can find a lot of similar constructions, the closest of which is in the Psalm 34(35):23. He writes: “My suggestion regarding the genesis of Thomas's confession is this. In his attempt to depict the significance of the risen Jesus for himself personally, Thomas used a liturgical form ultimately drawn from the LXX, which later came to serve admirably as the crowning christological affirmation of the Fourth Gospel”. [9]
John 20:18 is the eighteenth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It occurs after Jesus' resurrection and appearance to Mary Magdalene. In the previous verse Jesus has given Mary a message to deliver to his disciples, this verse describes how she delivers it.
John 20:19 is the nineteenth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It describes what it says is the first appearance of Jesus to his disciples after Resurrection of Jesus, and in a locked room of a house.
John 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel. This chapter records the events on the day of the crucifixion of Jesus, until his burial.
Kyrios or kurios is a Greek word that is usually translated as "lord" or "master". It is used in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible about 7000 times, in particular translating the name YHWH, and it appears in the Koine Greek New Testament about 740 times, usually referring to Jesus.
The New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the conquests of Alexander the Great until the evolution of Byzantine Greek.
John 20:20 is the twentieth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It contains the reaction the disciples to Jesus' first appearance after his resurrection and Jesus showing his hands and his side.
John 20:21 is the twenty-first verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus' commission to the disciples during his first appearance after the resurrection.
John 20:22 is the twenty-second verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus giving the Spirit to the disciples during his first appearance after the resurrection. Jesus gives Holy Spirit
John 20:23 is the twenty-third verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus giving the power of forgiveness to the apostles during his first appearance after the resurrection.
John 20:24 is the twenty-fourth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It contains the note that Thomas was absent when Jesus appeared for the first time to the disciples.
John 20:25 is the twenty-fifth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It contains the reaction of Thomas after the other disciples told him about Jesus' appearance.
John 20:26 is the twenty-sixth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus' reappearance to the disciples, including Thomas, eight days after his resurrection.
John 20:27 is the twenty-seventh verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus' reappearance to the disciples, including Thomas, eight days after his resurrection.
John 20:29 is the twenty-ninth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus' reappearance to the disciples, including Thomas, eight days after his resurrection.
John 20:30 is the thirtieth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It contains the statement of purpose for the whole gospel.
John 20:31 is the thirty-first verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It contains the statement of purpose for the whole gospel.
Textual variants in the Hebrew Bible manuscripts arise when a copyist makes deliberate or inadvertent alterations to the text that is being reproduced. Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible has included study of its textual variants.
Textual variants in the Book of Exodus concerns textual variants in the Hebrew Bible found in the Book of Exodus.
Textual variants in the Book of Deuteronomy concerns textual variants in the Hebrew Bible found in the Book of Deuteronomy.
Textual variants in the Book of Genesis concerns textual variants in the Hebrew Bible found in the Book of Genesis.
| Preceded by John 20:27 | Gospel of John Chapter 20 | Succeeded by John 20:29 |