‘Jesus says to him, “Because you have seen, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Response in faith to the word of God is here seen as the supreme achievement. Many believe for many reasons, but full response to God in response to His word is seen as the ultimate in blessedness.

John began his Gospel by declaring that ‘the Word was God', so that ‘we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten son of the Father' (John 1:1; John 1:14). Here he ends it (initially) with Thomas' declaration “My Lord and my God”, the supreme declaration of faith that would in future determine who was a true believer (Romans 10:9).

John 20:29 is then addressed to the readers calling on them to show that supreme faith which, without seeing, accepts the fullness of the truth of Christ's deity.

Final Summary.

The call to faith. John calls his readers to share the same faith as Thomas in the fact that Jesus is ‘my Lord and my God' on the basis of what he has written.

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