52 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Now a controversy sprang up among them as to which of them might be the greatest.

and after he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now for a whole year their meeting with the church lasted, and they taught large numbers of people. It was at Antioch too that the disciples first came to be known as "Christians."

Then they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept on working with them and confirming their message by the signs that attended it.

By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.

Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had told her this.

He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on before Him, two by two, to every town or place which He was going to visit.

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

Here are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who was named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,

When Jesus had closed this charge to His disciples, He left there to teach and preach in their towns.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

The disciples said to Him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, there is no advantage in getting married."

One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

As a result of this many of His disciples turned their backs on Him and stopped accompanying Him.

Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."

and said to them, "Tell the people that His disciples came by night, while we were sleeping, and stole Him away.

but their eyes were in such a state as to keep them from recognizing Him.

Now when John in prison heard of the doings of the Christ, he sent this message by his disciples:

So the report got out among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; He said only, "If I wish him to wait until I come, what is that to you?"

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to His disciples:

And He said, "Are you too, even yet, without understanding?

Now when Saul arrived at Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples there, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was really a disciple.

At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the wheat fields, and His disciples became hungry, and began to pull the heads of wheat and eat them.

Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

Then He called His twelve disciples to Him, and gave them authority over foul spirits, so that they could drive them out, and so that they could cure any disease or ailment.

Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

Another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go back and bury my father."

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home."

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

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "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 bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

Then He said to His disciples, "The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

And He called the Twelve to Him and sent them out two by two, and gave them power over the foul spirits.

Now when the hour came, He took His place at the table, with the apostles about Him.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We are going with you too." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to drive out demons, and we tried to stop him, for he was not one of our followers."

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say 'Goodbye' to the homefolks."

Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of Jesus, were all together.

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

So when Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "But, Lord, what about him?"