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Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you."
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And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
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If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld."
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Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.
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So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe."
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[Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18; 1 Corinthians 5:4, 5]
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