Thomas

Also called Didymus

Mentioned AD 31–33 traditional (Jones)

Twin, one of the twelve (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18, etc.). He was also called Didymus (John 11:16; 20:24), which is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Tagged in: 12 verses

Mentioned in the era of the New Testament, 4 BC to AD 100.
Named in the same verses as Alphaeus, James, Matthew, Bartholomew, Lebbaeus, Philip, Simon, and Andrew.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

3 events in which Thomas takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

AD 28Apostles ChosenMatt 10:2-4; Mark 3:13-18; Luke 6:12-16
AD 30Resurrection and AscensionMatt 28:1-20; Mark 16:1-20; Luke 24:1-53; John 20:1-31
AD 30Matthias replaces JudasActs 1:12-26

Places

Places named in the same verses as Thomas, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

possible location: Cana1
location not graded: Galilee1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 6–58, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

12 tagged verses in 5 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Matthew1
Mark1
Luke1
John8
Acts1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Thomas 11Didymus 3
KJV	Thomas 12Didymus 3
ASV	Thomas 11Didymus 3

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 12 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Matthew1 verse

10:3
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

Mark1 verse

3:18
Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

Luke1 verse

6:15
Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot;

John8 verses

11:16
Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
14:5
“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”
20:24
Now Thomas called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
20:26
Eight days later, His disciples were once again inside with the doors locked, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
20:27
Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”
20:28
Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!”
20:29
Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
21:2
Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.

Acts1 verse

1:13
When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Twin, one of the twelve (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18, etc.). He was also called Didymus (John 11:16; 20:24), which is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name. All we know regarding him is recorded in the fourth Gospel (John 11:15, 16; 14:4, 5; 20:24, 25, 26-29). From the circumstance that in the lists of the apostles he is always mentioned along with Matthew, who was the son of Alphaeus (Mark 3:18), and that these two are always followed by James, who was also the son of Alphaeus, it has been supposed that these three, Matthew, Thomas, and James, were brothers.