Thematic Bible: Disciple


Thematic Bible



Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;


One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.


Salute Apellas, tested and tried in Christ, and the household of Aristobulus,


to my sister Apphia, to my fellow soldier Archippus, and to the church which meets at Philemon's house. From Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy.

And tell Archippas to take heed to the ministry which he has received in the Lord, that he may fulfill it.


Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are associated with them.


Do try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brotherhood.


yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.


They stood still, looking sad. And one of them named Cleopas, answered him, "Do you sojourn alone in Jerusalem, that you do not know what things have been happening there these days?"





When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside by themselves, and as they went he said to them.

So he came to Jerusalem, and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.


We looked up the local disciples and remained there seven days; and these disciples kept telling Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.


and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."


After this the appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two before his face, into every city and place into which he himself intended to go.


At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"


And the Lord said to him. "Arise, go into the street named 'Straight,' and make inquiries in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus, one Saul.


So they placed two in nomination, Joseph called Bar-Sabbas (surnamed Justas) and Matthias;


and after discharging their mission, Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John, surnamed Mark.

And while they were in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.

So, after he had thought things over, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where a large number of people were assembled, praying.

From Paphos Paul and his party set sail for Perga in Pamphylia; but John Mark left them and went back to Jerusalem.


Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, Olympas, and all the saints associated with them.


Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are associated with them.


Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.


He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him they took him home and explained to him more accurately the way of God.

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. Here he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them??or by trade they were tentmakers.

And Paul after remaining in Corinth some time longer, took leave of the brothers, and sailed away to Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. As Paul was under a vow, he had his head shaved at Cenchrea. When they came to Ephesus he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow laborers in the cause of Jesus Christ, who risked their own lives to save mine; who are thanked not only by me,

Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla (Prisca), with the church that meets in their house, greet you heartily in the Lord.


Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.