53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

After going, make ye disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

But a thought entered among them, which of them may be greater.

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass a whole year for them to be assembled in the congregation, and to teach a considerable multitude, and to call the disciples Christians, first at Antioch.

And those men, having gone forth, they preached everywhere, the Lord working jointly, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Truly.

By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

Mary Magdalene comes informing the disciples that she has seen the Lord, and he spoke these things to her.

He answered them, I told you already, and ye did not listen. Why do ye want to hear it again? Do ye not also want to become his disciples?

But he, having turned around, and having looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Go thee behind me, Satan, because thou think not the things of God, but the things of men.

By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.

Now after these things the Lord also appointed seventy other men, and sent them by twos before his face into every city and place where he himself was going to come.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,

And it came to pass when Jesus finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

(although Jesus himself did not immerse, but his disciples),

And the disciples having come, they said to him, Why do thou speak to them in parables?

When therefore he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered that he spoke this, and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus said.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples,

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.

Now it came to pass on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, also his disciples. And he said to them, Let us pass through to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth,

From this, many of his disciples went back at these things, and walked no more with him.

And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase faith for us.

Say ye, His disciples, having come by night, stole him from us while we slept.

But their eyes were held, not to recognize him.

Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, having sent two of his disciples,

This saying therefore went forth among the brothers, that that disciple does not die. And yet Jesus did not say to him, that he does not die, but, If I want him to remain until I come, what is it to thee?

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying,

And Jesus said, Are ye also still without understanding?

And when Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to join with the disciples, and they all feared him, not believing that he is a disciple.

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears, and to eat.

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come behind me, cannot be my disciple.

And having called in his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.

They reviled him, and said, Thou are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses.

And another of his disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.

And Jesus having summoned his disciples, he said, I feel compassion toward the multitude because they continue with me now three days and do not have what they might eat. And I do not want to dismiss them without food, lest they mi

And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not heal him.

And Jesus having turned, and having seen them following, says to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi (which says, being interpreted, Teacher), where do thou dwell?

And his disciples James and John having seen, they said, Lord, do thou want that we should call fire to come down from the sky, and consume them, as also Elijah did?

And he said to the disciples, The days will come when ye will long to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye will not see it.

And he summons the twelve, and began to send them forth in pairs. And he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

And when the hour came, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.

Simon Peter says to them, I am going to harvest fish. They say to him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and straightaway entered into the boat. And in that night they caught nothing.

Lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

And he says to them, Come behind me, and I will make you fishermen of men.

And John answered him, saying, Teacher, we saw a certain man, who does not follow us, casting out demons in thy name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow us.

And also another said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those in my house.

There were together, Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other men of his disciples.

And he himself was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him, and say to him, Teacher, does it not concern thee that we perish?

Having seen this man, Peter says to Jesus, Lord, and what of this man?