53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

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

Now an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest.

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them what Jesus had said to her.

He answered, "I told you already and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"

But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God's interests, but on man's."

Everyone will know by this 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 said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James 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 towns.

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

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

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

So after 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 Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

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

One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, "Let's go across to the other side of the lake." So they set out,

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

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

telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.'

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted 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 a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

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

Jesus called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness.

They heaped insults on him, saying, "You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

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

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."

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

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call 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.

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table and the apostles joined him.

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

The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

He said to them, "Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people."

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 first let me say goodbye to my family."

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

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

So when Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"