53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Therefore, go [and] make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

And an argument developed among them as to who of them might be greatest.

And [when he] found [him], he brought [him] to Antioch. And it happened to them also [that they] met together [for] a whole year with the church and taught a large number [of people]. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

And they went out [and] proclaimed everywhere, [while] the Lord was working together with [them] and confirming the message through the accompanying signs.]]

My Father is glorified by this: that you bear much fruit, and prove to be my disciples.

Mary Magdalene came [and] announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and he had said these [things] to her.

He replied to them, "I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear [it] again? You do not want to become his disciples also, [do you]?"

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."

And after these [things], the Lord also appointed seventy-two others and sent them out two by two before {him} into every town and place where he was about to go.

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

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother,

And it happened that when Jesus had finished giving orders to his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and to 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 furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples),

And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!"

Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." And they set sail,

For this [reason] many of his disciples {drew back} and were not walking with him any longer.

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

telling [them], "Say 'His disciples came during the night [and] stole him [while] we were sleeping.'

but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

Now [when] John heard in prison the deeds of Christ, he sent [word] by his disciples

So this saying went out to the brothers that that disciple would not die. But 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 spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

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

And [when he] arrived in Jerusalem, he was attempting to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, [because they] did not believe that he was a disciple.

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck off heads of grain and eat [them].

Whoever does not carry his own cross and {follow} me {cannot be} my disciple.

And summoning his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could expel [them] and could heal every disease and every sickness.

They reviled him and said, "You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!

And another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

And Jesus summoned his disciples [and] said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way."

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

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

Now [when] the disciples James and John saw [it], they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

And he said to the disciples, "Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see [it].

And he summoned 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 the table, and the apostles with him.

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

The Lord Yahweh has given me [the] tongue of pupil, to know how to help [the] weary [with] a word. He awakens {morning by morning}, awakens an ear for me to listen as [do] the pupils.

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

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

And another [person] also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house."

Simon Peter and Thomas (who was called Didymus) and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee and the [sons] of Zebedee and two others of his disciples were together.

And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing?"

So [when he] saw this one, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, but what about this one?"