“Doubting Thomas ... nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe,” he said (John 20:25). We aren’t told why Thomas missed the first meeting of Jesus with other disciples ...

Some early Gospels, such as the Gospel of Thomas, don’t include ... describes in verse 21 how after Jesus had died, the nails were removed from his hands. The Gospel of Peter also famously ...

The cleft palate on the right side and the associated asymmetries of his ... as 'hands', but with Hesiod, Rufus Medicus, and others as 'arms'. Hence, according to Jn 20, Jesus said to Thomas ...

Jesus rolled his head to the side, and with his cheek resting on the wood he saw: A mallet? Yes. A nail? Yes. The soldier’s hand? Yes. But he saw something else. He saw the hand of God.

Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus written in the New Testament had ...