Quotes About Discipleship

“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,

Then you will say, ëWe ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.í

Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

Then Jesus told them this parable:

Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.

“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

So those who were sent went out and found it just as Jesus had told them.

Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.

Judas consented, and began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus to them in the absence of a crowd.

After taking the cup, He gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves.

“Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”

Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”

Then they seized Jesus, led Him away, and took Him into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.

About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with Him, for he too is a Galilean.”

Now there was a Council member named Joseph, a good and righteous man,

It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.

You are witnesses of these things.