John 20:21-25
John 20:21
So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be to you; just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”
John 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 20:23
If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”
John 20:24
But Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
John 20:25
So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”