Quotes About Discipleship

I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. Jesus said, “I am He.” And Judas His betrayer was standing there with them.

Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servantís name was Malchus.

Now Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he also went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

At this, the servant girl watching the door said to Peter, “Arenít you also one of this manís disciples?” “I am not,” he answered.

Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself. So they asked him, “Arenít you also one of His disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”

One of the high priestís servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didnít I see you with Him in the garden?”

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.

When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus replied, “Feed My lambs.”

Jesus asked a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus told him, “Shepherd My sheep.”

Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And after He had said this, He told him, “Follow Me.”

Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. He was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper to ask, “Lord, who is going to betray You?”

When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?”

Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you? You follow Me!”

In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,

He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”