gospel · 30 · Jerusalem
He had not been there the first time and said flatly what he would need. Eight days later, with the doors shut again, he was offered exactly it — put your finger here, put out your hand — and the gospel does not say he took it. What it says is that he answered 'my Lord and my God', which is the highest thing anyone calls Jesus anywhere in the four gospels, and that the answer came from the one who had refused to take it on report. Byzantium and the Copts keep the octave of Pascha as Thomas Sunday for this scene; the dataset held the feast and not the scene.
'My Lord and my God' — the strongest confession any gospel puts in a disciple's mouth, and the feast of the octave of Pascha.