Quotes About Obedience

This is the first and greatest commandment.

So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.

At that time Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

and they gave them for the potterís field, as the Lord had commanded me.”

Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.

Meanwhile, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had designated.

and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

And at once they left their nets and followed Him.

Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”

Jesus promptly sent him away with a stern warning:

“See that you donít tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

“I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.

Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.

But He warned them sternly not to make Him known.

Then Jesusí mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

When that evening came, He said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side.”

Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”