Please read the passage before the commentary.
It is the week after Easter, the day of Jesus’ resurrection. All the disciples have seen the risen Lord except Thomas, for some reason had been absent of that occasion. Thomas demands to see the hands and feet, the wounds on Jesus’ body as a condition for believing.
Is it for Thomas of f-or us that Jesus showed his hands, feet and side to Thomas? The truth of the resurrection is not that it was an apparition of the dead Jesus, that it was not a ghost, a phantasm of sorts, but that it was Jesus totally alive in flesh and blood despite having died in his flesh and with his blood.
The story of Thomas is the pronouncing of the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Somehow this bodily resurrection include our resurrection because the mystery of Christ has drawn each of us into this body of Christ. In a sense, Thomas saw the entire mystery of the life, death, and resurrection in the wounds of Jesus. When we say, “My Lord and my God,” we are putting our Amen on the most deeply profound declaration of the person of Jesus, Lord and God. Now we get to live it.
men on the most deeply profound declaration of the person of Jesus, Lord and God. Now we get to live it.
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