50 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,

A discussion arose among them as to which of them would be the greatest.

and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.

Mary of Magdala went and declared to the disciples, "I have seen the Master!" and she told them that he had said this to her.

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

But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men."

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

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

When Jesus had finished giving his twelve disciples these instructions, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?"

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, it is better not to marry!"

It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

The apostles said to the Master, "Give us more faith."

and said to them, "Tell people that his disciples came in the night and stole him away while you were asleep.

but they were prevented from recognizing him.

Now when John heard in prison of what the Christ was doing, he sent by his disciples

So the story spread 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, "If I wish him to wait till I come, what does it matter to you?"

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

He said, "Have even you no understanding yet?

When he reached Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they could not believe that he was really a disciple.

At that same time Jesus walked one Sabbath through the wheat fields, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of wheat and eat them.

For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Then he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power over the foul spirits so that they could drive them out, and so that they could heal any disease or illness.

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

And another of his disciples said to him, "Let me first go, sir, and bury my father."

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."

And I brought him to your disciples and they have not been able to cure him."

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

And he said to his disciples, "The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not be able to do so.

And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.

When the time 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 will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing.

He said to them, "Come and follow me, and I will make you fish for men!"

John said to him, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he was not one of our followers."

Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael, 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. And they woke him up and said to him, "Master, does it make no difference to you that we are sinking?"

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "But, Master, what about him?"