No one has ever seen or heard of a God like you, who does such deeds for those who put their hope in him.

How good and beautiful the land will be! The young people will grow strong on its grain and wine.

and when they heard her say that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe her.

So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" Thomas said to them, "Unless I see the scars of the nails in his hands and put my finger on those scars and my hand in his side, I will not believe."

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands; then reach out your hand and put it in my side. Stop your doubting, and believe!"

Jesus said to him, "Do you believe because you see me? How happy are those who believe without seeing me!"

However, as the scripture says, "What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him."

My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.