53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Then an argument started among them about who would be the greatest of them.

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the accompanying signs.]

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples.

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.

“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

These are the names of the 12 apostles:

First, Simon, who is called Peter,
and Andrew his brother;
James the son of Zebedee,
and John his brother;

When Jesus had finished giving orders to His 12 disciples, He moved on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

One day He and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,

From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

and told them, “Say this, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole Him while we were sleeping.’

But they were prevented from recognizing Him.

When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent a message by his disciples

So this report spread to the brothers that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

“Are even you still lacking in understanding?” He asked.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple.

At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain.

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

Summoning His 12 disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to heal every disease and sickness.

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples.

“Lord,” another of His disciples said, “first let me go bury my father.”

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

I brought him to Your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.”

When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying?”

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

Then He told the disciples: “The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won’t see it.

He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

When the hour came, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him.

“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

The Lord God has given Me
the tongue of those who are instructed
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me each morning;
He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.

“Follow Me,” He told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.”

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord, but first let me go and say good-bye to those at my house.”

Simon Peter, Thomas (called “Twin”), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of His disciples were together.

But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord—what about him?”