Yohanes 20:24

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi Tomas, seorang dari kedua belas murid itu, yang disebut Didimus, tidak ada bersama-sama mereka, ketika Yesus datang ke situ.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi Tomas, seorang dari kedua belas murid itu, yang disebut Didimus, tidak ada bersama-sama mereka, ketika Yesus datang ke situ.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Adapun Tomas, seorang daripada kedua belas murid itu, yang bergelar Didimus, tiada bersama-sama dengan mereka itu tatkala Yesus datang.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ The same day at nyght, whiche was the first day of the Sabbothes, when the doores were shut, where the disciples were assembled together for feare of the Iewes, came Iesus and stoode in the myddes, and sayth vnto them, peace be vnto you. ²⁰ And when he had so sayde, he shewed vnto them his handes & his syde. Then were the disciples glad, when they sawe the Lorde. ²¹ Then sayde Iesus to them agayne, peace be vnto you: As my father sent me, euen so sende I you also. ²² And when he had saide those wordes, he breathed on them, & saith vnto them: Receaue ye the holy ghost. ²³ Whosoeuers sinnes ye remit, they are remitted vnto them: And whosoeuers sinnes ye retayne, they are retayned. ²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelue, [which is] called Didymus, was not with them when Iesus came. ²⁵ The other disciples therfore sayde vnto hym, we haue seene the Lorde. But he sayde vnto them: Except I see in his handes the print of the nayles, and put my fynger into the prynt of the nayles, and thruste my hande into his syde, I wyll not beleue.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thomas: John 11:16, John 14:5, John 21:2, Matthew 10:3

was: John 6:66, John 6:67, Matthew 18:20, Hebrews 10:25

Reciprocal: Mark 3:18 - Thomas Luke 6:15 - Thomas John 20:26 - Thomas

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus,.... The person here spoken of, is described by his Hebrew name Thomas, and his Greek one Didymus, which both signify a twin; and perhaps he was one. It was common with the Jews to have two names, a Jewish and a Gentile one; by the one they went in the land of Israel, and by the other when without the land q; nay, they often went by one name in Judea, and by another in Galilee r; where Thomas might go by the name of Didymus with the Greeks, that might live with the Jews in some of those parts: he is also said to be "one of the twelve" apostles, which was their number at first, though Judas now was gone off from them, and therefore are sometimes only called the "eleven"; but this having been their complement, it is still retained; but what is observed of him to his disadvantage and discredit is, that he

was not with them when Jesus came: Beza's ancient copy reads, "he was not there with them"; and so read the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions; he either had not returned to the rest after their scattering one from another upon the apprehending of Christ; or did not choose to assemble with the rest, for fear of the Jews; or was taken up with some business and affair of life; however, he was not with the rest of the disciples, when they were assembled together, and Jesus appeared among them: as it is of good consequence to attend the assemblies of Christ's disciples and followers, so it is of bad consequence to neglect or forsake them: it is frequently to good purpose that persons attend them; here God comes and blesses his people, Jesus grants his presence, the graces of the Spirit are increased, and drawn forth into exercise; souls that have lost sight of Christ find him, disconsolate ones are comforted, weak ones strengthened, and hungry ones fed: on the other hand, not to attend is of bad consequence; neglect of assembling together exposes to many snares and temptations; brings on a spiritual leanness; leads to an indifference and lukewarmness: issues in a low degree of grace, and a non-exercise of it, and in a loss of Christ's presence.

q T. Hieros. Gittin, fol. 43. 2. r T. Hieros. Gittin, fol. 45. 3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. Thomas - called Didymus — See this name explained, John 11:16.

Was not with them — And, by absenting himself from the company of the disciples, he lost this precious opportunity of seeing and hearing Christ; and of receiving (at this time) the inestimable blessing of the Holy Ghost. Where two or three are assembled in the name of Christ, he is in the midst of them. Christ had said this before: Thomas should have remembered it, and not have forsaken the company of the disciples. What is the consequence? -

His unbelief becomes

1st. Utterly unreasonable. Ten of his brethren witnessed that they had seen Christ, John 20:25; but he rejected their testimony.

2dly. His unbelief became obstinate: he was determined not to believe on any evidence that it might please God to give him: he would believe according to his own prejudices, or not at all.

3dly. His unbelief became presumptuous and insolent: a view of the person of Christ will not suffice: he will not believe that it is he, unless he can put his finger into the holes made by the nails in his Lord's hand, and thrust has hand into the wound made by the spear in his side.

Thomas had lost much good, and gained much evil, and yet was insensible of his state. Behold the consequences of forsaking the assemblies of God's people! Jesus comes to the meeting-a disciple is found out of his place, who might have been there; and he is not only not blessed, but his heart becomes hardened and darkened through the deceitfulness of sin. It was through God's mere mercy that ever Thomas had another opportunity of being convinced of his error. Reader! take warning.