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Example sentences for "disciples"

Lexicographically close words:
dischargeth; discharging; dische; dischen; disciple; discipleship; disciplina; disciplinam; disciplinarian; disciplinary
  1. The disciples dispersed, and went abroad spreading the great news.

  2. That is why Love's true disciples are few, and the slaves of selfishness many.

  3. Other systems draw their little circles of disciples about them, as Jesus drew His twelve.

  4. The best way to understand Epicureanism, however, is to let Epicurus and his disciples speak for themselves.

  5. Even the disciples themselves, after months of such teaching, like James and John may not know what manner of spirit they are of.

  6. In Acts 2, 42 we are told that the disciples at Jerusalem were persevering "in the communication of the breaking of the bread.

  7. It is only by abiding in the words of Christ that men become and remain the true disciples of Christ, hence, His Church (John 8, 31).

  8. There the Lord confers the same authority on all the disciples which He is said in Matt.

  9. The Lord had addressed to all His disciples the question, "Whom say ye that I am?

  10. He had been for a time the great man, the popular preacher, the one every one talked about, whose advice everyone sought, now he must stand aside and see his disciples gather round another master, himself not in the group at all.

  11. Now I will do what his disciples did--leave "the Friend of the Bridegroom" for the Bridegroom Himself.

  12. The disciples however who brought the news did not take at all the same view of the case.

  13. JESUS talking to His disciples about John.

  14. And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and came and told JESUS," told the Bridegroom that His "friend" was dead.

  15. Surely after that the disciples could never again stumble in their faith, and it must have been with joy in their hearts that they told their master of all they had seen and heard.

  16. One day when John was in prison his disciples came and told him that they had heard that JESUS was working a great many miracles and that His fame was spreading all through the country.

  17. John stood and two of his disciples and beholding JESUS walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.

  18. Mohammed, to justify his forbidding his disciples to drink wine, cites the history of the two angels, Arot and Harot.

  19. In one of the writings of the disciples of Tao-tse, the tradition takes a fuller form.

  20. These statutes He abolished shortly before His Passion, as though the disciples had by their means become sufficiently practiced.

  21. His former disciples received him with every token of respect as an honoured visitor; and in reply to his question as to where the old priest was, they informed him that their worthy teacher had been dead for some time.

  22. So much so, that after a few months he ran away and went straight to his former home at the monastery, telling the disciples that he was their old master.

  23. By-and-by the moon became obscured; and when the disciples brought a lighted candle they found the priest sitting in the dark alone.

  24. The disciples all came crowding round to wait upon them, but one of the strangers said, "On a festive occasion like this we ought all to enjoy ourselves together.

  25. The Confucian Gospels, being discourses of the Sage with his disciples on miscellaneous topics.

  26. But the orthodox followers of Guesde and the revolutionary disciples of Hervé joined to secure its condemnation first by the Paris organization, and later by the National Council of the Party by the decisive vote of 87 to 51.

  27. The best known of the Socialist critics of Marxism, Edward Bernstein, shares with some of Marx's most loyal disciples in this excessive idealization of the industrial working class.

  28. Faith, he will answer them here: (1) Christ received the kiss of Judas, in fact He said one of His disciples would betray Him.

  29. St. Mark tells of a gentleman who brought his son to Christ The boy, it seems, was possessed of a dumb spirit, over which the disciples had no control.

  30. The pioneers are denounced as heretics, and the heretics denounce their denouncers as the disciples of superstition and ignorance.

  31. The order of the day for his disciples exhibits a profound knowledge of the relations of body and mind.

  32. He is afraid that those disciples who, when smitten on one cheek turn the other to be smitten also, will get up a riot.

  33. He did not teach his disciples to revel in grossness, although his maligners have made this charge.

  34. It was a long time before the disciples became great enough to include the world in their scheme, and before they thought it proper to tell the "glad tidings of great joy" beyond the limits of Judea.

  35. At that time the disciples of Christ, of course, were Jews.

  36. The disciples of Loyola, who can be toleration itself when toleration furthers their crafty and ambitious views, had declined all interference with the above custom.

  37. They have hunted him from city to city in Asia and in Europe; they have raised the populace against his converts; they have sought to poison the minds of his disciples against him.

  38. Not unbelievers only, but disciples as well, have practically ceased to think of the Second Advent.

  39. Who can doubt that, when this letter was read in the little congregation at Thessalonica, the hearts of the disciples warmed again to the great teacher who had been among them, and to the message of love which he had preached?

  40. He did not care for money or for fame; but a place in the hearts of his disciples was dear to him above everything else in the world.

  41. The disciples had not, indeed, been taken by surprise.

  42. The Apostle demands of his disciples conduct answering to this ideal.

  43. The Apostle had followed this Divine order; he had made disciples in Thessalonica, and then he had taught them how to walk and to please God.

  44. As his stay was prolonged, the disciples became very dear to their teachers; "we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls.

  45. Faith, of course, means the Christian faith: all men are not believers in Christ and disciples of Christ; and therefore the moral unreason and perversity of which I have spoken actually exist.

  46. But Timothy was one of the founders of the church at Thessalonica; he had an affectionate and natural interest in it; he came at once into close contact with its real condition, and found the disciples full of faith and love.

  47. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them; and, when they saw him, they worshipped him.

  48. So they took the money, and did as they were taught; and this saying [that his disciples stole him away] is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

  49. On those who ventured to disturb their facts with the view of putting them in order and to use, the disciples of Hog had no mercy whatever.

  50. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.

  51. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.

  52. The Lotus Cave When the party left the Elephant Country, seeing a mountain ahead, the Master warned his disciples to be careful.

  53. The Master and his disciples were then set at liberty, and proceeded on their journey.

  54. By the aid of her magic he broke the extinguisher, gave his Master and fellow-disciples pills to counteract the poison, and so rescued them.

  55. The Ancient of Days replied: "No, without these trials your Master and his disciples could never attain to perfection.

  56. When his disciples opened his tomb, they found it empty.

  57. Sun suspected that it was a trick; but the Master could no longer endure the pitiful wails; he ordered his disciples to loose the child, and the Monkey to carry him.

  58. The three disciples bade him fear not, as they were united, and were all good men seeking truth.

  59. One of the disciples was thrown into the river.

  60. On the other hand, if he did not procure anything for their meal, his disciples would make fun of him.

  61. Hsi-mên Pao then bade his attendants send the remaining disciples of the witch and the other official attendants to recall their mistress.

  62. Many other Pharisees, besides the apostle Paul, are mentioned with honour in Holy Writ, as friends and disciples of our Redeemer, though they had not the courage openly to declare themselves his followers.

  63. In the hours of the greatest solemnity, the divine Master revealed to his disciples the hidden sense of the ancient revelation in all the plenitude of its mysteries.

  64. Protestantism was the work of man; and it appears in no other light even in the history which its own disciples have drawn of its origin.

  65. Is it possible that they would have permitted the disciples to take them away as relics, since these very men had been bribed by the Pharisees to perjure themselves by saying that the disciples had stolen the body of our Lord?

  66. It would be too absurd to maintain that this was done by the disciples of Jesus Christ; and if we are told that they were found a long time afterwards, it will be still less probable, as this money must have passed through many hands.

  67. His body was afterwards removed by his disciples to Spain.

  68. Mark relates that when Mary conveyed to the Disciples the joyous tidings of the LORD’S Resurrection, she found them overwhelmed with sorrow,—“mourning and weeping.

  69. But because, (as every one is aware), there exists no record of an appearance to the Disciples peculiar to S.

  70. No artist, the intimate disciples not excepted, has more studied his compositions, and more caused them to be played, and yet our relations with this great musician have only been rare and transient.

  71. Muller and de Noailles were his cherished disciples [disciples affectionnees].

  72. In appreciating a philosopher, it is usual to ask, What authoritative creed has he proclaimed, for disciples to swear allegiance to?

  73. Plato's works charmed and instructed all; so that they were read not merely by disciples and admirers (as the Stoic and Epikurean treatises were), but by those who dissented from him as well as by those who agreed with him.

  74. On approaching the house we found a crowd round the door, and the house itself packed with disciples and friends of the great man.

  75. To make the lesson more emphatic, it was decided that two of the Bab's chief disciples were to be executed with him.

  76. The effect of such courage and heroism was only to stir up more people to be disciples of the Bab, as the following story shows.

  77. Fire as a symbol is also connected with their worship, the disciples frequently passing their hands through the flame, kissing them, and then rubbing them over their faces.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disciples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.