52 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,

And an argument arose among them as to which of them would be the greatest.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year they met with the church and taught great numbers of people; and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

Then they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word by the signs that accompanied it. Amen.

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

Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her.

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

But when he had turned around and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

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

After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

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

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 when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.

"If any one 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.

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

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 had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.

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

One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they set out.

From this time many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him.

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

and said, "Tell them, 'His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.'

But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

Now when John heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples

Then the saying spread among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?"

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?

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

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

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

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

Then they reviled him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."

Now Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him."

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

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

Then he said to the disciples, "The days are coming 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 him the twelve, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

When the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him.

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

And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name and we forbade him, because he was not one of us."

Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say farewell to those at my home."

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

But he was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care if we perish?"

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?"