During his lifetime, Jesus had performed many signs, with the purpose of producing belief. In the new age of the Spirit, faith was no longer to depend on this sort of sign. Thomas sought for the reassurance of touch and feeling as the price for his belief in the Risen Lord. It is easy to identify with Thomas. He was the pessimist among the disciples. He regarded an invitation to go to Jerusalem with Jesus as an invitation to death (Jn. 11:16). When Jesus called himself the “Way”, he bluntly said, “How do we know the way?” (Jn. 14:5). However, Jesus was the good shepherd of Thomas; He knew him as one of His own and allowed his pessimism, only so that, Thomas could make a confession surpassing all others in the gospel, “My Lord and my God.”