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John 20 Bible study: We have seen the Lord

The word nails is in only one verse of the whole New Testament, in Greek and in the WEB: Thomas's "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails" (20:25). After eight days, Jesus says to him, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands" (20:27).

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“Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.””
John 20:29 · World English Bible

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“In John 20, Mary turns and sees Jesus before he says her name, and she turns again when he says, ‘Mary.’”

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The stone taken away from the tomb

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"Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb" (20:1) (tap tomb). She runs to Simon Peter "and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved", and says to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!" (20:2). Favor's chapter on John 13 asks who that disciple was: the book never gives his name, and these notes name him no further. The two run together, and "The other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first" (20:4). Stooping and looking in, "he saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he didn’t enter in" (20:5) (tap linen cloths). Then Simon Peter comes, goes into the tomb, and sees "the linen cloths lying, and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself" (20:6-7). "So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed" (20:8). The Gospel goes on, "For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead" (20:9) (tap Scripture, rise), and "So the disciples went away again to their own homes" (20:10). John's Gospel tells the empty tomb in these words, and these notes don't fill them in from the other Gospels.

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The Greek word behind it

πιστεύωpisteuosay pist-YOO-o

Strong's: "to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust". The verb comes six times in this chapter, in four verses (counted in RP2018). The other disciple "saw and believed" (20:8). Thomas says, "I will not believe" (20:25). Jesus says to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed" (20:29). And the book says, "these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name" (20:31). Unbelieving and believing in 20:27 are other words (tap unbelieving). John's Greek has the verb 100 times, more than any other book of the New Testament (counted in RP2018).

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John 20 Bible study questions

  1. 1Jesus asked Mary, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" (20:15). If he asked you those two questions today, what would you say?
  2. 2Where the disciples were assembled, with the doors locked, "Jesus came and stood in the middle and said to them, “Peace be to you.”" (20:19). Where would you most like to hear those words this week?
  3. 3"Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed" (20:29). What has helped you believe without seeing?

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Last reviewed October 7, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home