Child's Story of the BibleLathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)
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Child's Story of the Bible
Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)
Bible stories, English
"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."
A week passed, and the disciples were again gathered in the upper room,
and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut and guarded as before,
but, as before the Lord suddenly stood in the midst, saying,
"Peace be unto you." Then He turned to Thomas with gentle rebuke,
"Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy
hand and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless but believing."
Thomas did not wait to touch the Lord, but cried,
"My Lord and my God!"
"Thomas," He said, "because thou hast seen me thou hast believed;
blessed are they that have not seen and have believed."
Soon after this the apostles went away into Galilee, as the Lord had
commanded them to do. There by the Lake where He had called them from
their nets to follow Him they waited for Him. Peter, and James, and
John were there, with Thomas, and Nathanael, and two others of His
disciples. The old love for the Lake came back to Peter, and he said,
"I go a fishing," and the others said,
"We also go with thee," and they went out for a night with the nets on
the Lake, but they caught nothing. In the morning as they drew a
little nearer land they saw a dim figure on the shore and heard a voice
saying to them,
"Children, have ye any meat?" They answered "No," and then the clear
voice came across the water saying,
"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find." This
they did, and so heavy did the net become with fishes that they were
not able to draw it. Perhaps John remembered another day on the Lake
when the nets broke with the weight of the fishes, and looking at the
figure standing on the shore in the sunrise, he said to Peter,
"It is the Lord!"
Peter did not wait to reply, but tying his fisher's coat around him he
threw himself into the Lake to swim towards His Master on the shore.
The others followed in the ship dragging the net with them, and when
they had landed they found a fire of coals there, with fish laid upon
it and bread, and the Lord Himself standing there as one who served.
"Bring of the fish ye have now caught," He said. And Peter, first to
obey, drew the net to land full of great fishes--one hundred and
fifty-three--and the net was not broken. While they were silent for
joy and wonder, knowing that it was the Lord, and yet not daring to
question Him, He said, "Come and dine." And there upon the sands the
Lord for the third time since He rose from the dead, broke bread with
his disciples. John, the beloved disciple was there, but it is not
recorded that Jesus spoke to him personally. His heart was wholly with
his Lord, and he did not need the loving help that was given to
doubting Thomas, and self-confident, wavering Peter. To Simon Peter He
said after they had finished their simple meal,
"Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?"
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