Listes 114+ Caravaggio Incredulity Of Saint Thomas . It is tensely concentrated, compact within a solid romanesque archway formed by the outline of the four figures clustered intimately together against a dark background. So the other disciples told him, "we have seen the lord."but he said to them, "unless i see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, … Now thomas, one of the twelve, called the twin, was not with them when jesus came. In this painting, caravaggio depicts thomas the apostle's doubting of jesus' resurrection as told in the gospel of john, with thomas looking at—and feeling—jesus' wounds. As in rubens's work, this prominence is underscored by the gesture of christ opening his arms to allow full view of his torso, while his body leans slightly backwards, away from the group of apostles to his side.