Why didn't Jesus rebuke Thomas?

Question

In John 20:24-29 Thomas calls Jesus, My Lord and my God.
If Jesus believed he should not be worshiped, why didn't he rebuke Thomas?

24Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"
But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."

26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."

28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

29Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

The point is if Jesus did NOT think he should be worshiped.
In other places in the bible, angels rebuked others for bowing down to them. If Jesus was not God, why didn't he do the same?

Answer 1

Jesus never said He should not be worshiped. In fact, He accepted worship from those who did so, because He knew that He was God incarnate. As the Son of God, or God in the flesh, He alone could accept worship, because it was due Him.

Answer 2

Thomas did not really doubt he wanted to cofirm the Lord had risen and was physically alive. All of the disciples were rebuked after the resurrection for not believing what the prophets had said about the Christ. Thomas just wanted physical proof, there is no sin in that in and of itself.

Answer 3

I believe to show two things about the human heart and Gods' view of it.

First Thomas was a follower of Jesus who had his doubts. We all do this even in our own walk. Especially after a terrible loss. Remember that Jews was killed in front of them after being betrayed by the leaders of his country. And Jesus had done mighty miracles but this time even his supernatural powers could not prevent the cruelty of man from murdering innocence. No Thomas had real normal rational doubts.

So when the report came about Jesus' resurrection Thomas had his faith reaffirmed. Just as John the Baptist who was thrown in prison, had to have his own faith reaffirmed in Jesus. We all do.

But Jesus challenged both of them to faith. John the baptist had to believe in the reports of his disciples. And Thomas believed after he felt God. But Jesus told him that those who believed without seeing or touching were truly blessed.

God honors faith. And a lot of times in our lives when things get tough. Sometimes that is all we have left is our faith in Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Theo.. you need to see Harmony in the Bible.
Why, then,’ one may ask, ‘did Thomas exclaim when seeing the resurrected Jesus, “My Lord and my God!”?’ Jesus had just told Mary Magdalene: “I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.” Remember, too, why John wrote his Gospel. Three verses after the account about Thomas, John explained that he wrote so that people “may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God”—not that he is God. (John 20:17, 28, 31)
Clearly, there are many gods. Some, as we have seen, are named in the Bible. Yet, people who saw Jehovah’s power long ago exclaimed: “Jehovah is the true God! Jehovah is the true God!” (1 Kings 18:39) Another god, however, also has power. The Bible says: “The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.”—2 Corinthians 4:4, King James Version.
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Answer 5

For the same reason that Jesus didn't destroy the town in Luke 9
53And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

54And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

55But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

56For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Answer 6

He did not rebuke Thomas because Jesus is in fact God Himself, as Thomas confessed.

Answer 7

Jesus knew Thomas, the innocent soul was talking. Often Satan talked thro the apostles. who Jesus rebuked. i gather?

Answer 8

Thomas had not yet received an initial buking. A rebuke was therefore impossible.

Answer 9

Because Jesus Christ is LOVE, mercy, forgiveness, salvation!

Answer 10

Geez!, you expect him to be that mean?