Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 20:28

"Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." — John 20:28 (ASV)

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

Leaping out of the slough of doubt onto the rock of confidence by a single spring, and advancing further, perhaps, than others who had previously outstripped him. He inferred the Deity of Christ from His wounds and resurrection—a grand chain of argument of which we have not the intervening links. His thoughtful mind made him feel that, if Christ was indeed risen—the same Christ who had died—it was proved by those death-wounds that He was both Lord and God; while his personal, appropriating faith, realizing the identity of the Savior's person, made him say, "My Lord and my God."