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.

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

More Exhibitions

Joseph Sold into Slavery, Bad Blood, False Accusations and Portents of the Future, from The Crusader Bible (The Morgan Picture Bible) by Unknown French artist

Zulaykha Seizing the Skirt of Yusuf's Robe, from a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami by Unknown Bukharan artist

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife and Scenes from the life of Joseph, from the Golden Haggadah by Unknown artist

Genesis 39
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Lavinia Fontana

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Unknown artist

The Woman at the Well by Diego Rivera

John 4:1–42
The Woman at the Well

Jali Lattice Window by Mughal artists from Gujurat

Self Portrait in a Fur-Trimmed Robe by Albrecht Dürer

Still Life with Vessels by Francisco de Zurbarán

2 Corinthians 3:12–4:18
From Glory to Glory Advancing