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,

An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]

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

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

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

But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."

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

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

Then Jesus told 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;

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

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

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only 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 had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide 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 across to the other side of the lake." So they set out,

After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

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

and said, "Tell people, '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 deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples

So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?

And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they 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 him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.

And they reviled him, saying, "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."

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

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

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

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

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

And when the hour came, he reclined 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.

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. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us."

Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first 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 the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"

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