Today and tomorrow our gospel lessons together are what we know as the last chapter of John, chapter 21, widely regarded as an appendix, or an epilogue, to the first twenty chapters. The gospel seems to end with these words of Risen Jesus to Thomas and the others, “ ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.’ Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but 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.”[1]
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