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Discipleship

‘Come, follow me!’ is one of the first recorded sayings of Jesus Christ. ‘Disciple’ is the New Testament’s term for all those who respond to this call. Christ's disciples are followers of their teacher—people who seek to be faithful to him as they follow the way that he has opened up for them. We meet disciples in many shapes and forms in the Gospels. Their example—combined with the guidance and exhortation offered at many other points in the New Testament—has offered a shape of living for disciples in every generation since.

Pentecost by Sadao Watanabe
Saint Sebastian by Sodoma [Giovanni Antonio Bazzi]
Study for Two Youths Enter Upon a Pilgrimage by Thomas Cole

John 15:18–27 The Disciples and the World

Christ Displaying His Wounds by Lo Spadarino [Giovanni Antonio Galli]
Doubting Thomas, Installation view, The National Gallery, Saints Alive by Michael Landy
The Incredulity of St. Thomas by Bernardo Strozzi

John 20:24–31 Doubting Thomas

Christ at the Sea of Galilee, attrubuted to Lambert Sustris
The Communion of the Apostles: The Distribution of Bread, from the Rossano Gospels (Codex Purpureus Rossanensis), by an unknown artist
Christ appearing to the Apostles on the Lake of Tiberias, from the Maestà by Duccio

John 21:1–14 Stranger on the Shore

Pentecost (detail) by Unknown Artist
Ascension and Pentecost by Unknown Artist
The Pentecost from the Benedictional of St Aethelwold by Unknown Artist

Acts of the Apostles 2:1–13 Pentecost

Conversion of Saul by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Conversion of Saul by Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Conversion of Saul by William Blake

Acts of the Apostles 9:1–31; 22:1–21; 26:1–18 The Road To Damascus

Ritual, by Norman Lewis
Three Episodes in the Life of Saint Paul, from the series The Story of Saint Paul, Designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder, possibly woven by Willem de Pannemaker
The Evening Prayer II, by Angu Walters

Acts of the Apostles 19 In Search of Authentic Discipleship

My Second Sermon, by John Everett Millais
Three Episodes in the Life of Saint Paul, from the series The Story of Saint Paul, Designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder, possibly woven by Willem de Pannemaker
Paul raises Eutychus from the Dead, from the Acta Apostolorum, by the workshop of Philip Galle, after Jan van der Straet

Acts of the Apostles 20:1–12 Eutychus: A Miracle in the Early Church

Christ Pantocrator from The Bible of St Louis (Rich Bible of Toledo; Bible of Toledo) by Unknown Artist
Cameo: Gemma Augustea (fragment) by Unknown artist
Peace movement in East Germany Poster 'Swords into Plowshares' with a note to a peace prayer at St Nikolai Church, Leipzig by Unknown, German

Colossians 1:1–20 The Cosmic Christ and His Gospel

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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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