52 Bible Verses about Discipleship

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

A dispute arose among them as to which of them was the greatest.

and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."

while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified.

Away went Mary of Magdala to the disciples with the news, "I have seen the Lord!" ??telling them what he had said to her.

He retorted, "I have told you that already, and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it over again? Do you want to be disciples of his?"

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

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

After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.

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

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,

After finishing these instructions to his twelve disciples, Jesus removed from there to teach and preach among their towns.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?"

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."

It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"

and told them to say that "his disciples came at night and stole him when we were asleep."

though they were prevented from recognizing him.

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

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples.

He said, "And are you totally ignorant?

He got to Jerusalem and tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, unable to believe he was really a disciple.

At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the cornfields, and as his disciples were hungry they started to pull some ears of corn and eat them.

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment.

Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!

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

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."

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

Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.

And summoning the twelve he proceeded to send them out two by two; he gave them power over the unclean spirits,

and when the hour came he took his place, with the apostles beside him.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going to fish." They said, "We are coming with you too." Off they went and embarked in the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

Simon Peter, Thomas (who was called 'the Twin'), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the two sons of Zebedaeus, and two other disciples of his, were all together.

He was sleeping on the cushion in the stern, so they woke him up saying, "Teacher, are we to drown, for all you care?"

So, on catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "And what about him, Lord?"