Disciple

The twelve disciples are enumerated here for the first time as a named, authorized unit — receiving power directly from Jesus to act on His behalf in the world.

John's disciples serve here as the messengers carrying his prison question to Jesus, illustrating that even in confinement John maintained a community of followers devoted to his teaching.

The Disciples are the ones whose grain-picking on the Sabbath triggers the confrontation — Jesus defends them not by minimizing the act but by asserting His own authority over the day itself.

The Disciples pull Jesus aside privately to question His teaching method — their access to Jesus for private explanation contrasts directly with the crowd's limited understanding.

John's disciples appear here at the end of the execution narrative — they retrieve his body, bury him, and carry the news of his death directly to Jesus.

The disciples appear here as anxious intermediaries, nervously flagging to Jesus that He has offended the Pharisees — a moment that reveals how differently Jesus and His followers assessed the importance of religious establishment approval.

The disciples are shown here at their most oblivious — overthinking a lunch problem while Jesus tries to warn them about the corrupting influence of Pharisaic and Sadducean doctrine.

The Disciples here are the ones receiving the mountaintop preview of Jesus' glory — witnesses who are about to be floored by something entirely beyond their frame of reference.

The disciples are the audience for Jesus' object lesson — standing around a child and being told this child models what they should become.

The disciples respond to Jesus' marriage teaching with stunned honesty — if divorce is this restricted, maybe singleness is the safer option — revealing how radical His standard felt even to His own followers.

The twelve disciples receive Jesus' most explicit death prediction here, yet their inability to process the resurrection promise is immediately evident in the power-grab scene that follows.

The disciples are sent ahead as Jesus's advance team, tasked with securing the donkey and colt — obediently carrying out instructions they may not fully understand yet.

The Disciples are specifically named as part of Jesus's audience for this speech — alongside the crowds, they need to hear this warning so they don't replicate the same toxic leadership patterns.

The disciples are here as the ones pointing out the Temple's impressive stonework, representing the common Jewish pride in the structure — and the audience that will be completely stunned by Jesus's next sentence.

The disciples are Jesus' immediate audience for this entire discourse, receiving these final warnings about the end of the age while seated with Him on the Mount of Olives.

The disciples receive Jesus' blunt announcement of His coming betrayal and crucifixion, still unable to fully grasp the weight of what He is telling them.

Disciple is used here to describe Joseph of Arimathea — identifying why this wealthy man takes such a risk, and noting that he had been following Jesus even if quietly, away from the public eye.

The Disciples are the ones the women are racing to find — Jesus' inner circle who abandoned Him at the cross and now need to hear He is alive and wants to meet them.

The disciples are the inner circle who gather closely around Jesus as He sits to teach, positioning them as both the immediate audience and the future carriers of everything He is about to say.

Disciple describes the second person who approaches, and whose request to bury his father first draws one of Jesus' most demanding sayings about the unconditional priority of following Him.

The Disciples are the ones the Pharisees confront with the question about Jesus's dinner companions — placing them in the middle of the conflict and forcing them to defend their teacher's choices.

Disciple is introduced here at the moment the first two followers leave John the Baptist to follow Jesus — the chapter is showing the actual birth of discipleship in real time.

The disciples are alarmed at Jesus' plan to return to the region where crowds recently tried to stone Him, revealing the very real physical danger surrounding this journey.

The disciples are present for the triumphal entry but completely miss its prophetic meaning in real time — John confesses they only understood it in retrospect, after Jesus was glorified.

The disciples are the recipients of the foot-washing here — ordinary followers having their feet washed by the one they called Lord and Teacher, a scene that redefines what leadership in Jesus's movement looks like.

The disciples are the anxious audience for this entire speech — the inner circle Jesus is personally preparing for the trauma of His death and the mission that will follow.

The Disciples are pulled aside for a private word — Jesus tells them they are witnessing what generations of prophets and kings only dreamed of seeing.

One of the disciples has just asked Jesus to teach them to pray, the same way John the Baptist instructed his own followers — triggering Jesus's prayer template.

The disciples are explicitly the recipients of Jesus' comfort here — after the crowd heard the hard parable about greed, Jesus turns back to His inner circle with reassuring words about God's provision and care.

A disciple here is specifically defined by Jesus as someone who has counted the full cost — family loyalty, personal comfort, even life itself — and still chose to follow.

The disciples are the direct recipients of this parable — Jesus is specifically training them to think strategically about eternal stakes the way shrewd worldly people think about temporal ones.

Disciples are referenced here as the first recruits Jesus gathers — the immediate formation of a team signals the communal nature of His mission.

The disciples follow up privately after the public exchange, pressing Jesus for clarification on His stricter teaching about divorce and remarriage.

The Disciples are sent ahead by Jesus on a specific errand — to retrieve the unridden colt — acting as obedient agents in the fulfillment of the prophesied royal entry.

One of the disciples voices the group's amazement at the Temple's grandeur, unknowingly setting up Jesus's stunning counter-declaration that none of it will remain standing.

The disciples (or those at the table) are the ones who object to the woman's anointing as wasteful — they haven't yet grasped, as she has, that Jesus' time is running out.

The disciples are asking about the restoration of Israel's kingdom, still expecting a political revolution — Jesus has to reorient their understanding of what the mission actually is.

The disciples in Antioch are the community that receives the name 'Christians' for the first time — their distinctiveness is so visible that outsiders coin a new word to describe them.

The disciples left behind in Pisidian Antioch after Paul and Barnabas are expelled are described as filled with joy and the Holy Spirit — evidence that the gospel's roots hold even when its planters are driven out.

The disciples here are the local believers who gather around Paul's motionless body after the stoning — their presence is what Paul wakes up to before standing and walking back into the city.

Timothy is first introduced as a disciple, establishing that his faith is already genuine and grounded before Paul invites him into the broader apostolic mission.