<p>20:27 <em>Then he said to Thomas: Reach here your finger and see my hands, and reach here your hand and put it into my side; and be not faithless but believing</em>- His finger was the appropriate size to enter the nail wounds, and his hand the right side to enter the spear gash in the Lord's side. &ldquo;Do not persist in your disbelief, but become a believer&rdquo; (Gk.). And then He pronounces to Thomas: &ldquo;You have now believed&rdquo; (Jn. 20:29, Syriac text). It&rsquo;s as if John is challenging his hearers and readers in the same way, and setting up his buddy &lsquo;doubting Thomas&rsquo; as their pattern. John makes the point that Thomas didn&rsquo;t initially believe the &lsquo;preaching&rsquo; of the Gospel of the resurrection by the other disciples; just as John anticipated some would not accept his account of the same Gospel on first hearing. And again, &quot;be not faithless but believing&quot; jumps out of the text to challenge each of us, as do so many questions and exclamations in John's Gospel.</p>