Quotes About Discipleship

After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciplesí feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”

Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”

You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”

After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”

One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.

So Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus which one He was talking about.

Leaning back against Jesus, he asked, “Lord, who is it?”

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

“Lord, where are You going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

“Lord,” said Peter, “why canít I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”

“Will you lay down your life for Me?” Jesus replied. “Truly, truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

This is to My Fatherís glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Fatherís commandments and remain in His love.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ëNo servant is greater than his master.í If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

“Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied.