"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."--_John
20:29._
[Illustration: THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM BE NOT AFRAID]
OUR blessed Lord Jesus did not stay with His apostles as He did before
His death and rising. They did not see Him after that first day for a
whole week; and they could not make Thomas, who had not been there when
He came, believe that it was true that any man could come again from
the grave.
He said He should never believe that it was the Lord Himself, unless he
could put his fingers into the prints of the nails, and his hand into
the wound in the side.
The next Sunday evening, Thomas and the other ten were all in the
upper room together, when Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said
to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold My hands; and reach
hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless, but
believing."