Jesus Calls the First Disciples

Once while Jesus was standing beside the Lake of Gennesaret and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,

The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

The Question about Fasting

Then they said to him, “John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.”

The Question about the Sabbath

One Sabbath while Jesus was going through some grain fields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

Jesus Teaches and Heals

He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.

Blessings and Woes

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

A disciple is not above the teacher, but every disciple who is fully qualified will be like the teacher.

Jesus Raises the Widow’s Son at Nain

Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

Messengers from John the Baptist

The disciples of John reported all these things to him. So John summoned two of his disciples

The Purpose of the Parables

Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

Jesus Calms a Storm

One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they put out,

For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke them and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Peter’s Declaration about Jesus

Once when Jesus was praying alone, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.”

And all were astounded at the greatness of God.

Jesus Again Foretells His Death

While everyone was amazed at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,

When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

The Lord’s Prayer

He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”

A Warning against Hypocrisy

Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.

Do Not Worry

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

The Cost of Discipleship

Now large crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them,

“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.