53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

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

There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened, that for a whole year they were gathered together with the church, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.

"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples, "I have seen the Lord.," and that he had said these things to her.

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

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan. For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

And it happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and proclaim in their cities.

"If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

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

Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."

saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Messiah, he sent [a message] by his disciples

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

So he said, "Do you also still not understand?

When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

Whoever does not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

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

They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

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

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."

And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them?"

He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

And he called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve.

Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

And he said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he does not follow us."

Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."

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

And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are dying?"

Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?"