‘Twin’ — Te'oma in Aramaic, which John translates outright as ‘the one called DIDYMUS,’ the Greek word for twin (John 11:16; 20:24; 21:2, none yet on these pages). Neither Gospel says who the other twin was. ⚠ Matthew’s list (10:3) gives him no further comment — he is paired with Matthew himself in the six pairs of the Twelve — but he becomes, in John, the disciple willing to say ‘let us also go, that we may die with him’ (11:16) and, after the resurrection, the one who will not believe without putting his own hand in the wound: ‘doubting Thomas,’ a nickname the text itself never uses, earned by a single scene (John 20:24–29, not yet on these pages) that also ends in one of the four Gospels’ plainest confessions: ‘my Lord and my God.’