Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 20:27-28

"Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach [hither] thy hand, and put it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." — John 20:27-28 (ASV)

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

It has been well observed that Thomas was the first person who ever proved to himself the Deity of Christ from the exhibition of his wounds. There is a good argument in it, which we cannot pause to explain at this time; but the very humanity of Christ has in it the doctrine of his Deity; you can easily argue from the one to the other.

How divine must he be who, in his condescension, took upon himself our nature!

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

And whether Thomas did put his finger into the print of his nails or not, we cannot tell. Everyone may think as he likes about that. He may have done so, or he may not, but this one thing happened, that he answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. He made a splendid leap from the depths of doubt to the firm rock of confidence. With two blessed mys he seems to grasp Christ with both hands, and in two grand words he pictures him, My Lord and my God.