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Joh 20:25. Ἔλεγον, the other disciples said) He seems to have come a little while after.-ἑωράκαμεν, we have seen) Without doubt they spake to him also concerning the marks in the Lord’s hands and side.-ἐάν μὴ, unless) Professed and avowed unbelief. He demands that he should both see and touch; that he must have the evidence of the two distinct senses; [He refuses to be inferior at least to the other disciples (i.e. he requires to have at least as much evidence given him as was given to them) Joh 20:20, “He showed unto them His hands and His side.”-V. g.]; and he does not say, If I shall see, I will believe, but only, “Unless I shall see, I will not believe.” Nor does he think that he shall see, even though the others say that they have seen. Without doubt he seemed to himself to be entertaining and expressing sentiments altogether judicious: but unbelief, whilst it attributes defect in judgment to others, often itself cherishes and betrays hardness of heart, and in that hardness slowness of belief. Mar 16:14, “He upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them that had seen Him after He was risen;” Luk 24:25, “O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.”-ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτοῦ, in His hands) He uses the words of the disciples. Comp. Joh 20:20.