John 20:28

Contemporary English Version

Thomas replied, "You are my Lord and my God!"

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Tom bowed his head and said, "My Lord and my God!"

Legacy Standard Bible
Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

Bible in Basic English
And Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God!

Darby Translation
Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

New King James Version
And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

Christian Standard Bible®
Thomas responded to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

World English Bible
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

Weymouth's New Testament
"My Lord and my God!" replied Thomas.

King James Version (1611)
And Thomas answered, and said vnto him, My Lord, and my God.

Literal Translation
And Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thomas answered, & sayde vnto him: My LORDE, and my God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Thomas answered, and said to him, my Lord and my God!

THE MESSAGE
Thomas said, "My Master! My God!"

Amplified Bible
Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!"

American Standard Version
Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Revised Standard Version
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Thomas answered and sayde vnto him: my Lorde and my God.

Update Bible Version
Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

Young's Literal Translation
And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

New Century Version
Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

New English Translation
Thomas replied to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Berean Standard Bible
Thomas replied, "My Lord and my God!"

Complete Jewish Bible
T'oma answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

English Standard Version
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Thomas answered, & said vnto him, Thou art my Lord, and my God.

George Lamsa Translation
Thomas answered and said to him, O my Lord and my God!

Hebrew Names Version
T'oma answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

International Standard Version
Thomas answered him, saying "My Lord and my God!"

Etheridge Translation
And Thoma answered and said to him, My Lord, and my God ! [fn]

Murdock Translation
And Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God!

New Living Translation
"My Lord and my God!" Thomas exclaimed.

New Life Bible
Thomas said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

English Revised Version
Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

New Revised Standard
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thomas answered, and said unto him - My Lord, and my God!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord and my God.

King James Version
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Lexham English Bible
Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thomas aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: My Lorde, and my God.

Easy-to-Read Version
Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord and my God!"

New American Standard Bible
Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

Good News Translation
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thomas answeride, and seide to him, My Lord and my God.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ A week later the disciples were together again. This time, Thomas was with them. Jesus came in while the doors were still locked and stood in the middle of the group. He greeted his disciples ²⁷ and said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands! Put your hand into my side. Stop doubting and have faith!" ²⁸ Thomas replied, "You are my Lord and my God!" ²⁹ Jesus said, "Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!" ³⁰ Jesus worked many other miracles for his disciples, and not all of them are written in this book. ³¹ But these are written so that you will put your faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God. If you have faith in him, you will have true life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My Lord: The disbelief of the apostle is the means of furnishing us with a full and satisfactory demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord. Throughout the divine dispensations every doctrine and ever important truth is gradually revealed; and here we have a conspicuous instance of the progressive system. An angel first declares the glorious event; the empty sepulchre confirms the women's report. Christ's appearance to Mary Magdalene shewed that he was alive; that to the disciples at Emmaus proved that it was at the least the spirit of Christ; that to the eleven shewed the reality of his body; and the conviction given to Thomas proved it the self-same body that had been crucified. Incredulity itself is satisfied; and the convinced apostle exclaims, in the joy of his heart, "My Lord and my God!" John 20:16, John 20:31, John 5:23, John 9:35-38, Psalms 45:6, Psalms 45:11, Psalms 102:24-28, Psalms 118:24-28, Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 25:9, Isaiah 40:9-11, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Malachi 3:1, Matthew 14:33, Luke 24:52, Acts 7:59, Acts 7:60, 1 Timothy 3:16, Revelation 5:9-14

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:14 - my lord Psalms 8:1 - our Psalms 16:2 - thou hast Psalms 35:23 - my God Psalms 97:10 - preserveth Daniel 10:16 - my Lord Hosea 9:17 - My God Matthew 2:2 - worship Matthew 22:42 - What Matthew 22:44 - my Lord Matthew 28:9 - worshipped Luke 1:43 - my Luke 23:42 - Lord John 1:1 - the Word was John 1:34 - this John 1:49 - thou John 6:69 - we believe John 9:38 - Lord John 10:36 - I am John 11:27 - Yea John 21:2 - Thomas John 21:7 - It is Acts 9:20 - that Romans 1:3 - his Son Romans 4:19 - being 2 Corinthians 1:19 - the Son Philippians 2:6 - thought Philippians 2:11 - is Lord Philippians 3:8 - my Hebrews 1:8 - O God Hebrews 7:14 - Our Lord 1 John 5:20 - This is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Thomas answered and said unto him,.... Without examining his hands and side, and as astonished at his condescension and grace, and ashamed of his unbelief:

my Lord and my God; he owns him to be Lord, as he was both by creation and redemption; and God, of which he was fully assured from his omniscience, which he had given a full proof of, and from the power that went along with his words to his heart, and from a full conviction he now had of his resurrection from the dead. He asserts his interest in him as his Lord and his God; which denotes his subjection to him, his affection for him, and faith in him; so the divine word is called in Philo the Jew, κυριος μου, "my Lord" x.

x Lib. Allegor. l. 2. p. 101.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My Lord and my God - In this passage the name God is expressly given to Christ, in his own presence and by one of his own apostles. This declaration has been considered as a clear proof of the divinity of Christ, for the following reasons:

1. There is no evidence that this was a mere expression, as some have supposed, of surprise or astonishment.

2. The language was addressed to Jesus himself - “Thomas ...said unto him.”

3. The Saviour did not reprove him or check him as using any improper language. If he had not been divine, it is impossible to reconcile it with his honesty that he did not rebuke the disciple. No pious man would have allowed such language to be addressed to him. Compare Acts 14:13-15; Revelation 22:8-9.

4. The Saviour proceeds immediately to commend Thomas for believing; but what was the evidence of his believing? It was this declaration, and this only. If this was a mere exclamation of surprise, what proof was it that Thomas believed? Before this he doubted. Now he believed, and gave utterance to his belief, that Jesus was his Lord and his God.

5. If this was not the meaning of Thomas, then his exclamation was a mere act of profaneness, and the Saviour would not have commended him for taking the name of the Lord his God in vain. The passage proves, therefore, that it is proper to apply to Christ the name Lord and God, and thus accords with what John affirmed in John 1:1, and which is established throughout this gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Thomas answered, c.] Those who deny the Godhead of Christ would have us to believe that these words are an exclamation of Thomas, made through surprise, and that they were addressed to the Father and not to Christ. Theodore of Mopsuestia was the first, I believe, who gave the words this turn and the fifth OEcumenic council, held at Constantinople, anathematized him for it. This was not according to the spirit of the Gospel of God. However, a man must do violence to every rule of construction who can apply the address here to any but Christ. The text is plain: Jesus comes in - sees Thomas, and addresses him; desiring him to come to him, and put his finger into the print of the nails, c. Thomas, perfectly satisfied of the reality of our Lord's resurrection, says unto him,-MY LORD! and MY GOD! i.e. Thou art indeed the very same person,-my Lord whose disciple I have so long been and thou art my God, henceforth the object of my religious adoration. Thomas was the first who gave the title of God to Jesus; and, by this glorious confession, made some amends for his former obstinate incredulity. It is worthy of remark, that from this time forward the whole of the disciples treated our Lord with the most supreme respect, never using that familiarity towards him which they had often used before. The resurrection from the dead gave them the fullest proof of the divinity of Christ. And this, indeed, is the use which St. John makes of this manifestation of Christ. See John 20:30-31. Bishop Pearce says here: "Observe that Thomas calls Jesus his God, and that Jesus does not reprove him for it, though probably it was the first time he was called so." And, I would ask, could Jesus be jealous of the honour of the true God-could he be a prophet-could he be even an honest man, to permit his disciple to indulge in a mistake so monstrous and destructive, if it had been one?