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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

John 20
²⁰ And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
²¹ So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."
²² And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
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."
²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
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."
²⁶ After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus *came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."
²⁷ Then He *said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."
²⁸ Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"
²⁹ Jesus *said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."
³⁰ Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;