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Jesus and the Twelve

Thomas

Also called Didymus

One of the Twelve, called Didymus

8
Events
5
Places
5
Journeys

Editorial summary

In John’s Gospel he urged his fellow disciples to go with Jesus, refused to believe their report of the risen Lord unless he could see and touch his wounds, and eight days later called Jesus his Lord and his God.

Scripture

Journeys

5

Where their story unfolds

5

Where they appear

8

  1. Appointing the Twelve

    Jesus went up into the mountain and appointed twelve to be with him and to be sent out to preach: Simon, whom he named Peter; James son of Zebedee and his brother John; Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot.

  2. The Last Supper

    On the first day of Unleavened Bread, disciples prepared the Passover in a large upper room in the city. As they ate, Jesus took bread and the cup, gave thanks and gave them to his disciples.

  3. Lazarus raised

    Lazarus of Bethany had been in the tomb four days when Jesus arrived. Jesus had the stone taken away and called him out, and the dead man came out still bound in burial wrappings.

  4. Thomas sees the risen Jesus

    Thomas, absent when Jesus first came to the disciples, said he would not believe unless he saw and touched the marks of the nails and Jesus’ side. Eight days later, with the doors locked, Jesus came again and told Thomas to reach out his hand, and Thomas called him his Lord and his God.

  5. Breakfast by the Sea of Tiberias

    Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee and two other disciples fished all night and caught nothing. At dawn Jesus, unrecognized on the beach, told them where to cast the net, and it filled with fish. The disciple whom Jesus loved said it was the Lord, and Jesus gave them bread and fish.

  6. The ascension

    Acts says that as the apostles watched, Jesus was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight. Two men in white clothing told them he would come back in the same way, and they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet.

  7. Praying in the upper room

    After the ascension the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet and went up to the upper room where they were staying. They continued steadfastly in prayer along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

  8. The Holy Spirit at Pentecost

    At Pentecost a sound like a mighty wind filled the house, and tongues like fire rested on each of them. Filled with the Holy Spirit, they spoke in other languages, which devout Jews from every nation heard as their own. Peter, standing with the Eleven, addressed the crowd, and about three thousand were baptized.

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