Getting to Know Jesus' Passion #22

We have spent the last few months following after Jesus through the Gospel of Luke alone. Now that we are here at the conclusion, it is also helpful to fill in details from the other Gospel writers. First, John 20:

19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending 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, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.

This was that same first day of the week we have been looking at, when Jesus appeared to Peter and two of His disciples in the breaking of bread. As we have seen, they went back to report, to the other disciples, when Jesus appeared, telling and showing them that He was indeed risen.  He showed them how he fulfilled scripture and renewed the promises of peace and the Holy Spirit He had given the twelve during the last supper. All there were convinced, but one of the twelve, Thomas the Twin, was not there. He needed more than eyewitness affirmation; he needed to see for himself.  What do we do about skeptics today, who cannot physically see the risen Christ? We need to show them the evidence from Scripture, and from our lives.