John 20:19-31
The last time the disciples saw Jesus it was when He was arrested 4 days ago. Jesus, now raised from the dead, comes to His disciples; He seeks them out. He doesn’t come empty handed either. His coming to them brings new things into their lives they never had before. There are four new features of your life when your faith is resurrected by the resurrected Christ.
The Persuasion of a Resurrected Faith
The Persuasion of a Resurrected Faith. The disciples were anything but persuaded that night. Mary and the other woman told them that they had seen Jesus earlier that afternoon alive. They didn’t believe them. The 2 disciples who are on their way to Emmaus said they saw Jesus and they weren’t believed either. Luke tells us that even when Jesus showed up the disciples didn’t believe it was Him. Luke 24 says Jesus said, “Why are you troubled and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. Touch and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” Then it goes on to say that Jesus ate some fish. Finally, in John 20:20, after all this, they believed and were overjoyed.
Thomas is highlighted by John in this passage but his doubt must be seen in the context of the doubt of all the disciples. They were no better than Thomas was when it came to faith that night. They did not believe until Jesus showed them His hands and feet and Thomas asked to see the same thing. But I think it is interesting that John highlights Thomas. It seems fitting since Thomas wasn’t there that first night with all the other disciples. More importantly this passage shows the deity of Jesus Christ through Thomas. And Christ’s deity is the theme of John’s Gospel.
But: Where was Thomas? How is it that all the other disciples were there except Thomas? A closer look at Thomas shows us that he’s the kind of guy who never sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The glass is always half-empty, it’s always partly cloudy, never partly sunny. If you need rain on your parade, Thomas can provide it. If you need to know how a plan is not going to work and what the worst-case scenario is, Thomas is an expert. Thomas always knew the odds and the odds were always stacked against them. He was a pessimist, or a realist.
For example, in chapter 11 Lazarus is sick. Jesus was out of town with His disciples and gets word that Lazarus was sick. He waits until Lazarus dies and then tells his disciples to pack up because they’re going to go back to Bethany to wake Lazarus up. The disciples don’t realize Jesus is going to do a resurrection miracle, and they try to warn Jesus by reminding Him the Jews were looking for Him and would kill Him. At last, when they realized Jesus was going back, it’s not Peter who leads the group to follow Jesus. It’s Thomas. He says, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
On the one hand Thomas was certain the worst was going to happen and all of them were going to be killed. On the other hand, you have to admire Thomas for going along even though he believed he was going to die!
I can’t help but wonder if there was a great sense of despair and hopelessness in Thomas that first night when Jesus was resurrected. The one whom he was willing to go to death for was dead and now what was there for him? How can any of these pieces of life be put together and make sense again? After the things he saw for 3 years with Jesus and the hope he had in all that Jesus said was he supposed to just go back now to some “ordinary” life? How does life go on now that Jesus was dead? And how about Jesus being dead? Maybe Thomas was ashamed that he wasn’t dead with Jesus. He was a devoted follower who was willing to go to death with Jesus before, but, now he proved with the rest of the disciples to be a deserter when Jesus was arrested. Perhaps he was so ashamed that he felt he couldn’t show his face to the other disciples.
Thomas did not ask for anything more than what the other disciples asked for. Thomas did not doubt anymore than the other disciples doubted.
You have to see that scene in the room that night. The disciples are hanging around. Thomas is there this time. They are all talking with so much excitement that they had seen Jesus. They were describing the wounds in his hands and feet and side. They were probably all saying, “Thomas, man if you had only been here. He showed us His side and His hands and feet. We totally thought it was a ghost but He sat down and ate bread and fish right in front of us! We saw Him, we touched Him, we heard Him! Man where were you? You should have been here?” I think with the disciples all talking about seeing Jesus and touching His hands and His side Thomas took that and said “well until I see as much as you guys have I’m not going to believe it.” But I think with Thomas there was desire to believe it. If he saw he would believe
When our faith has been raised to life we live a life being totally persuaded. We are persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ. We live our lives with conviction. This is not just having a strong opinion and this isn’t even just being enthusiastic about Jesus Christ. This is a firm trust in Jesus Christ that whatever He says I know is true. There is no persuading me otherwise.
What I really want us to see here is how Jesus met the spiritual need of the disciples, and that He will meet our needs too. Their faith was battered, they were scared and confused. Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever felt like locking yourself in a room to get away from life? Just as the Lord met their needs He will meet our needs. Do you need stronger faith? Ask Him for it. Do you need clarity? Do you need a softer heart? Do you need peace? Look to Him and ask for it. “I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” “If any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”
I think more than anything we need to see that it was being with Jesus that changed them.
Maybe you’re like the disciples and you want to believe but you just need the Lord to move in your life in such a way that you come to faith in Him.
You’ll notice then that once they were persuaded it says in verse 20 that they were overjoyed. Their sorrow turned to joy just like Jesus said it would back in chapter 16. And notice that it isn’t until they were persuaded that it was Jesus that they then had joy. This is a rule in Christian living that is in effect today as well. Until we are persuaded by Christ we will not have His joy. Until our faith is in Him and we come under His persuasion we cannot participate in His joy. We will not have joy in Christ until we are putting our faith in Him.
The Peace of the Resurrected Faith (v19, 21, 26)
Second, a Resurrected Faith brings Peace. Three times in this passage Jesus says to the disciples “Peace be with you” (verses 19, 21, 26). Peace is an important part of the Christian life. Jesus spoke often about it His last night in the upper room. He said in John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.” Then later in John 16:33 He said, “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace”. The contrast is obvious: In the world you will have trouble but in me you will have peace. The Peace of Jesus is the inheritance of Christians. The Peace of Jesus is so central to the Christian life that Paul opens all of his letters with the phrase, “peace be yours in Jesus Christ”.
Let me make a couple points about this peace that Jesus brings:
One, peace replaces God’s Anger towards us. Romans 5:1 says, “Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Peace is the new relationship we have with God because of Jesus. When He died on the cross Jesus ushered in God’s peace with us. Isaiah 53:5 says, “The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him”.
God is holy and man is unholy. This means that there is no way, no hope, no chance ever that we would be acceptable to Him. His relationship with us was one where He only felt wrath towards us because of our sins. But Jesus came and changed God’s relationship with us. Jesus changed God’s wrath into peace. He did this by going to the cross where He suffered the wrath of God for us. Jesus did this so that God could be at peace with us. Think of it this way: the peace between God the Father and Jesus is now the peace between us and God. The peace Jesus brings replaces God’s wrath towards us.
Second, the peace Jesus brings replaces our Anxiety. The disciples were hiding out in that upper room. The doors were locked. They were afraid of being hunted down by the Jews. They thought the Jewish leaders were coming after them next. They were in danger of being physically hurt if the Jews decided to arrest them to. At this point, they weren’t allowed to participate in the temple worship anymore because the Sanhedrin announced back in chapter 9 that anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the temple. This made them outcasts. They faced the reality that they were going to have a rough time getting jobs and making a living in a world that knows they followed Jesus. How embarrassing it would be to go home and face relatives who heard you talk about Jesus and that He was the hope of Israel. News of His disgraceful death has certainly reached them by now. They no doubt shared stories of the past 3 years they spent with Jesus. Peter probably was kicking himself that he didn’t try harder to prevent Jesus from going to Jerusalem. This on top of the fact that he had denied Jesus 3 times.
But Jesus finally comes to them and when He comes He replaces their fear with His peace. A Christian does not have to be a slave to anxiety and fear. We don’t have to be oppressed by the circumstances of life. Philippians 4:6-7 says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but, in everything, with thanksgiving, by prayer and petition, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” This is a peace that comes from Jesus. It replaces anxiety. Anxiety and peace do not co-exist. Jesus can replace the anxiety of our hearts with His peace. He is the only One who can do that.
Sometimes we’re so quick to turn to other things aren’t we? We shouldn’t be, not when there are such great promises of peace from our Lord. We are supposed to know what peace is as Christians. A life of constant fear and worry and anxiety does not come from Jesus Christ. Jesus talks about peace so much because it is one of the gifts of a resurrected faith. Faith cannot flourish when fear rules our heart.
But a resurrected faith brings peace.
The Purpose of the Resurrected Faith (v21b)
Third, a resurrected faith has Purpose. He says in verse 21, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” Let those words of Jesus hang , “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” He said these before in His High Priestly prayer, “As you sent me into the world I have sent them into the world.” He also said them
Some of us may be living for our careers. Some of us here may think that our kids are our life’s purpose. Some of us may think that our image and our looks are the most important thing about us. Some of us may think possessions and wealth and achievement is why we are on this earth. Still others may be thinking more pleasure is the highest purpose of life.
But these are all earthly and worldly minded purposes. These are not the purposes that Jesus Christ has for Christians. Our purpose is given to us by Jesus Christ right here: “As the Father has sent me I am sending you.” In other words, “Go now in the same way for the same purpose with the same effort on your mission that I went on mine with.”
I think each of us personally should be asking ourselves this question: Do I take my mission from Jesus as seriously as He took His mission from the Father? Jesus said in John 14:31, “I love my Father and I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.” His It would be good for us to measure our Christianity by Christ – how does my effort compare to the effort Jesus gave?
But what is our mission? We can answer that if we answer what Jesus’ mission was. If we could sum up in one short sentence what Jesus came to do we could say, “To make God known”, or, “to make His Father known.” This was said at the very beginning of this Gospel in 1:18, “No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.” The key words there are “has made Him known.” Then, at the end of Jesus’ life on earth, He prayed to the Father in 17:26 and said, “I have made you known to them…” The whole purpose of Jesus’ life on earth was to make it clear to everyone around who God was. Our purpose is to make it crystal clear to everyone around who Jesus is. I think that if people cannot know who Christ is from you then you need to ask yourself if you know Christ. He knew His Father, that’s why He could make Him known. If we know Christ, we will be making Him known.
The Posture of a Resurrected Faith (v28)
The posture of a resurrected faith. The position you see yourself in, in relationship to Jesus Christ. Or we might say it conversely, the position you see Christ in in relationship to you. Thomas saw Jesus as His Lord and His God. When your faith has been resurrected you come to see Jesus as He is: Lord and God. Jesus is Lord, and that means we are His servants. We are submitted humbly before Him. We see our relationship with Him in one respect as a “Master-servant” relationship.
But then Thomas says, “My God”. Jesus is God, and Jesus proved it by standing before Thomas raised from the dead. We have to see that Thomas’ reaction was just that: a reaction. It was almost involuntary, like he just blurted out without trying to put words together; as if when he pressed his hand into Jesus side and felt the nail marks He knew in the very core of His soul that he had just touched God. He didn’t cry out Rabboni. He knew that He was in the presence of the Lord and the God. More importantly, in that moment, Jesus became Thomas’ Lord and God. His posture with Jesus changed.
What is your posture with Christ? Have your eyes been awakened to see Him as Lord and God? Is He your Lord and your God? Is He your Savior? Someone might say, I can’t believe unless I see. The disciples got to see. It is true the disciples got to see Jesus and we don’t. But it is not true that you have to see Jesus to believe in Him. Jesus says in verse 29, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
All who have been saved by faith in Jesus Christ have never seen Jesus (except those couple hundred during those 40 days). The spread of Christianity and faith in Jesus was not going to happen because Jesus was going to begin appearing all over the world. People from all over the world who have never seen Jesus were going to hear about Him from the preaching of the Apostles.
Seeing is not believing. Faith is by hearing the word of God. John says in the very next verse, “These are written so that you may believe…” You have the eyewitness testimony of someone who was there. Here is the point: What is written down in the Bible is sufficient for someone to believe in Jesus. That also means that since God has left sufficient testimony, people will be justly condemned for rejecting the message.
The last time the disciples saw Jesus it was when He was arrested 4 days ago. Jesus, now raised from the dead, comes to His disciples; He seeks them out. He doesn’t come empty handed either. His coming to them brings new things into their lives they never had before. There are four new features of your life when your faith is resurrected by the resurrected Christ.
The Persuasion of a Resurrected Faith
The Persuasion of a Resurrected Faith. The disciples were anything but persuaded that night. Mary and the other woman told them that they had seen Jesus earlier that afternoon alive. They didn’t believe them. The 2 disciples who are on their way to Emmaus said they saw Jesus and they weren’t believed either. Luke tells us that even when Jesus showed up the disciples didn’t believe it was Him. Luke 24 says Jesus said, “Why are you troubled and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. Touch and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” Then it goes on to say that Jesus ate some fish. Finally, in John 20:20, after all this, they believed and were overjoyed.
Thomas is highlighted by John in this passage but his doubt must be seen in the context of the doubt of all the disciples. They were no better than Thomas was when it came to faith that night. They did not believe until Jesus showed them His hands and feet and Thomas asked to see the same thing. But I think it is interesting that John highlights Thomas. It seems fitting since Thomas wasn’t there that first night with all the other disciples. More importantly this passage shows the deity of Jesus Christ through Thomas. And Christ’s deity is the theme of John’s Gospel.
But: Where was Thomas? How is it that all the other disciples were there except Thomas? A closer look at Thomas shows us that he’s the kind of guy who never sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The glass is always half-empty, it’s always partly cloudy, never partly sunny. If you need rain on your parade, Thomas can provide it. If you need to know how a plan is not going to work and what the worst-case scenario is, Thomas is an expert. Thomas always knew the odds and the odds were always stacked against them. He was a pessimist, or a realist.
For example, in chapter 11 Lazarus is sick. Jesus was out of town with His disciples and gets word that Lazarus was sick. He waits until Lazarus dies and then tells his disciples to pack up because they’re going to go back to Bethany to wake Lazarus up. The disciples don’t realize Jesus is going to do a resurrection miracle, and they try to warn Jesus by reminding Him the Jews were looking for Him and would kill Him. At last, when they realized Jesus was going back, it’s not Peter who leads the group to follow Jesus. It’s Thomas. He says, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
On the one hand Thomas was certain the worst was going to happen and all of them were going to be killed. On the other hand, you have to admire Thomas for going along even though he believed he was going to die!
I can’t help but wonder if there was a great sense of despair and hopelessness in Thomas that first night when Jesus was resurrected. The one whom he was willing to go to death for was dead and now what was there for him? How can any of these pieces of life be put together and make sense again? After the things he saw for 3 years with Jesus and the hope he had in all that Jesus said was he supposed to just go back now to some “ordinary” life? How does life go on now that Jesus was dead? And how about Jesus being dead? Maybe Thomas was ashamed that he wasn’t dead with Jesus. He was a devoted follower who was willing to go to death with Jesus before, but, now he proved with the rest of the disciples to be a deserter when Jesus was arrested. Perhaps he was so ashamed that he felt he couldn’t show his face to the other disciples.
Thomas did not ask for anything more than what the other disciples asked for. Thomas did not doubt anymore than the other disciples doubted.
You have to see that scene in the room that night. The disciples are hanging around. Thomas is there this time. They are all talking with so much excitement that they had seen Jesus. They were describing the wounds in his hands and feet and side. They were probably all saying, “Thomas, man if you had only been here. He showed us His side and His hands and feet. We totally thought it was a ghost but He sat down and ate bread and fish right in front of us! We saw Him, we touched Him, we heard Him! Man where were you? You should have been here?” I think with the disciples all talking about seeing Jesus and touching His hands and His side Thomas took that and said “well until I see as much as you guys have I’m not going to believe it.” But I think with Thomas there was desire to believe it. If he saw he would believe
When our faith has been raised to life we live a life being totally persuaded. We are persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ. We live our lives with conviction. This is not just having a strong opinion and this isn’t even just being enthusiastic about Jesus Christ. This is a firm trust in Jesus Christ that whatever He says I know is true. There is no persuading me otherwise.
What I really want us to see here is how Jesus met the spiritual need of the disciples, and that He will meet our needs too. Their faith was battered, they were scared and confused. Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever felt like locking yourself in a room to get away from life? Just as the Lord met their needs He will meet our needs. Do you need stronger faith? Ask Him for it. Do you need clarity? Do you need a softer heart? Do you need peace? Look to Him and ask for it. “I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” “If any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”
I think more than anything we need to see that it was being with Jesus that changed them.
Maybe you’re like the disciples and you want to believe but you just need the Lord to move in your life in such a way that you come to faith in Him.
You’ll notice then that once they were persuaded it says in verse 20 that they were overjoyed. Their sorrow turned to joy just like Jesus said it would back in chapter 16. And notice that it isn’t until they were persuaded that it was Jesus that they then had joy. This is a rule in Christian living that is in effect today as well. Until we are persuaded by Christ we will not have His joy. Until our faith is in Him and we come under His persuasion we cannot participate in His joy. We will not have joy in Christ until we are putting our faith in Him.
The Peace of the Resurrected Faith (v19, 21, 26)
Second, a Resurrected Faith brings Peace. Three times in this passage Jesus says to the disciples “Peace be with you” (verses 19, 21, 26). Peace is an important part of the Christian life. Jesus spoke often about it His last night in the upper room. He said in John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.” Then later in John 16:33 He said, “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace”. The contrast is obvious: In the world you will have trouble but in me you will have peace. The Peace of Jesus is the inheritance of Christians. The Peace of Jesus is so central to the Christian life that Paul opens all of his letters with the phrase, “peace be yours in Jesus Christ”.
Let me make a couple points about this peace that Jesus brings:
One, peace replaces God’s Anger towards us. Romans 5:1 says, “Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Peace is the new relationship we have with God because of Jesus. When He died on the cross Jesus ushered in God’s peace with us. Isaiah 53:5 says, “The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him”.
God is holy and man is unholy. This means that there is no way, no hope, no chance ever that we would be acceptable to Him. His relationship with us was one where He only felt wrath towards us because of our sins. But Jesus came and changed God’s relationship with us. Jesus changed God’s wrath into peace. He did this by going to the cross where He suffered the wrath of God for us. Jesus did this so that God could be at peace with us. Think of it this way: the peace between God the Father and Jesus is now the peace between us and God. The peace Jesus brings replaces God’s wrath towards us.
Second, the peace Jesus brings replaces our Anxiety. The disciples were hiding out in that upper room. The doors were locked. They were afraid of being hunted down by the Jews. They thought the Jewish leaders were coming after them next. They were in danger of being physically hurt if the Jews decided to arrest them to. At this point, they weren’t allowed to participate in the temple worship anymore because the Sanhedrin announced back in chapter 9 that anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the temple. This made them outcasts. They faced the reality that they were going to have a rough time getting jobs and making a living in a world that knows they followed Jesus. How embarrassing it would be to go home and face relatives who heard you talk about Jesus and that He was the hope of Israel. News of His disgraceful death has certainly reached them by now. They no doubt shared stories of the past 3 years they spent with Jesus. Peter probably was kicking himself that he didn’t try harder to prevent Jesus from going to Jerusalem. This on top of the fact that he had denied Jesus 3 times.
But Jesus finally comes to them and when He comes He replaces their fear with His peace. A Christian does not have to be a slave to anxiety and fear. We don’t have to be oppressed by the circumstances of life. Philippians 4:6-7 says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but, in everything, with thanksgiving, by prayer and petition, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” This is a peace that comes from Jesus. It replaces anxiety. Anxiety and peace do not co-exist. Jesus can replace the anxiety of our hearts with His peace. He is the only One who can do that.
Sometimes we’re so quick to turn to other things aren’t we? We shouldn’t be, not when there are such great promises of peace from our Lord. We are supposed to know what peace is as Christians. A life of constant fear and worry and anxiety does not come from Jesus Christ. Jesus talks about peace so much because it is one of the gifts of a resurrected faith. Faith cannot flourish when fear rules our heart.
But a resurrected faith brings peace.
The Purpose of the Resurrected Faith (v21b)
Third, a resurrected faith has Purpose. He says in verse 21, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” Let those words of Jesus hang , “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” He said these before in His High Priestly prayer, “As you sent me into the world I have sent them into the world.” He also said them
Some of us may be living for our careers. Some of us here may think that our kids are our life’s purpose. Some of us may think that our image and our looks are the most important thing about us. Some of us may think possessions and wealth and achievement is why we are on this earth. Still others may be thinking more pleasure is the highest purpose of life.
But these are all earthly and worldly minded purposes. These are not the purposes that Jesus Christ has for Christians. Our purpose is given to us by Jesus Christ right here: “As the Father has sent me I am sending you.” In other words, “Go now in the same way for the same purpose with the same effort on your mission that I went on mine with.”
I think each of us personally should be asking ourselves this question: Do I take my mission from Jesus as seriously as He took His mission from the Father? Jesus said in John 14:31, “I love my Father and I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.” His It would be good for us to measure our Christianity by Christ – how does my effort compare to the effort Jesus gave?
But what is our mission? We can answer that if we answer what Jesus’ mission was. If we could sum up in one short sentence what Jesus came to do we could say, “To make God known”, or, “to make His Father known.” This was said at the very beginning of this Gospel in 1:18, “No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.” The key words there are “has made Him known.” Then, at the end of Jesus’ life on earth, He prayed to the Father in 17:26 and said, “I have made you known to them…” The whole purpose of Jesus’ life on earth was to make it clear to everyone around who God was. Our purpose is to make it crystal clear to everyone around who Jesus is. I think that if people cannot know who Christ is from you then you need to ask yourself if you know Christ. He knew His Father, that’s why He could make Him known. If we know Christ, we will be making Him known.
The Posture of a Resurrected Faith (v28)
The posture of a resurrected faith. The position you see yourself in, in relationship to Jesus Christ. Or we might say it conversely, the position you see Christ in in relationship to you. Thomas saw Jesus as His Lord and His God. When your faith has been resurrected you come to see Jesus as He is: Lord and God. Jesus is Lord, and that means we are His servants. We are submitted humbly before Him. We see our relationship with Him in one respect as a “Master-servant” relationship.
But then Thomas says, “My God”. Jesus is God, and Jesus proved it by standing before Thomas raised from the dead. We have to see that Thomas’ reaction was just that: a reaction. It was almost involuntary, like he just blurted out without trying to put words together; as if when he pressed his hand into Jesus side and felt the nail marks He knew in the very core of His soul that he had just touched God. He didn’t cry out Rabboni. He knew that He was in the presence of the Lord and the God. More importantly, in that moment, Jesus became Thomas’ Lord and God. His posture with Jesus changed.
What is your posture with Christ? Have your eyes been awakened to see Him as Lord and God? Is He your Lord and your God? Is He your Savior? Someone might say, I can’t believe unless I see. The disciples got to see. It is true the disciples got to see Jesus and we don’t. But it is not true that you have to see Jesus to believe in Him. Jesus says in verse 29, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
All who have been saved by faith in Jesus Christ have never seen Jesus (except those couple hundred during those 40 days). The spread of Christianity and faith in Jesus was not going to happen because Jesus was going to begin appearing all over the world. People from all over the world who have never seen Jesus were going to hear about Him from the preaching of the Apostles.
Seeing is not believing. Faith is by hearing the word of God. John says in the very next verse, “These are written so that you may believe…” You have the eyewitness testimony of someone who was there. Here is the point: What is written down in the Bible is sufficient for someone to believe in Jesus. That also means that since God has left sufficient testimony, people will be justly condemned for rejecting the message.
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