John 20:19

John 20:19 is the nineteenth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It recounts the appearance of the risen Jesus among his disciples in a locked room of a house.

Content

The original Koine Greek, according to the Textus Receptus, reads:
In the King James Version of the Bible, this verse is translated as:
The modern World English Bible translates the passage as:
For a collection of other versions see .

Analysis

The account of Jesus' appearance in "the house where the disciples had gathered" is similar to the account in the Gospel of Luke, when Jesus appeared to his disciples in Jerusalem on the evening of the day of his resurrection.
Only John mentions that the door was locked, and the reason why this was the case. The "function" of the locked door is to show the "miraculous nature of Jesus' appearance", showing that the risen Jesus is "no longer bound by normal space conditions". For Bede, the evening represented the time when the disciples would have been "most afraid".
The words Peace be with you is a common traditional Jewish greeting, but here Jesus conveys the peace he had previously promised to his disciples, causing the rapid switch of their emotion from "fear" to "joy".
The number of the disciples present is not certain, although Thomas' absence is singled out in verse 24, and Judas Iscariot would not have been present. It is possible that some other disciples, less tightly connected to the group, could have been there.