<P> He speaks again in John 14: 5 . There, Jesus had just explained that he was going away to prepare a heavenly home for his followers, and that one day they would join him there . Thomas reacted by saying, Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way? (NIV) </P> <P> John 20: 24 - 29 tells how doubting Thomas was skeptical at first when he heard that Jesus had risen from the dead and appeared to the other apostles, saying, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe . (v. 25) But when Jesus appeared later and invited Thomas to touch his wounds and behold him, Thomas showed his belief by saying, My Lord and my God . (v. 28) Jesus then said, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed (are) they that have not seen, and (yet) have believed . (v. 29) </P> <P> The name Thomas (Koine Greek: Θωμᾶς) given for the apostle in the New Testament is derived from the Aramaic or Classical Syriac: ܬܐܘܡܐ ‎ Toma, equivalently from Hebrew Teom, meaning "twin". The equivalent term for twin in Greek, which is also used in the New Testament, is Δίδυμος Didymos . </P> <P> The Nag Hammadi copy of the Gospel of Thomas begins: "These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos, Judas Thomas, recorded ." Early Syrian traditions also relate the apostle's full name as Judas Thomas . Some have seen in the Acts of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early 3rd century, or perhaps as early as the first half of the 2nd century) an identification of Saint Thomas with the apostle Judas, brother of James, better known in English as Jude . However, the first sentence of the Acts follows the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in distinguishing the apostle Thomas and the apostle Judas son of James . Others, such as James Tabor, identify him as Judah, the brother of Jesus mentioned by Mark . In the Book of Thomas the Contender, part of the Nag Hammadi, he is alleged to be a twin to Jesus: "Now, since it has been said that you are my twin and true companion, examine yourself ..." </P>

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