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Jesus' Commands to His Disciples

Jesus gave his disciples over 150 specific commands and instructions across the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These included commands to preach about the kingdom of God, heal the sick, forgive others, pray, give to those in need, love one another, make disciples of all nations, and more. The high-level purpose was to instruct the disciples in how to spread Jesus' message and teachings to others.

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Jesus' Commands to His Disciples

Jesus gave his disciples over 150 specific commands and instructions across the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These included commands to preach about the kingdom of God, heal the sick, forgive others, pray, give to those in need, love one another, make disciples of all nations, and more. The high-level purpose was to instruct the disciples in how to spread Jesus' message and teachings to others.

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  • Teachings from Matthew: Details the teachings and commands of Jesus as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, including instructions on repentance, faith, and behavior.
  • Teachings from Luke: Covers teachings from the Gospel of Luke, involving parables, repentance, and the cost of discipleship.
  • Teachings from Mark: Lists commands and teachings from the Gospel of Mark, focusing on faith, prayer, and discipleship.
  • Teachings from John: Presents teachings from the Gospel of John, emphasizing themes of love, eternal life, and Jesus' identity.

Jesus’ Commands to his Disciples in the Gospels

Matthew
1) 4:17 Repent
2) 4:19 Follow Me
3) 5:12 Rejoice at persecution because of me
4) 5:16 Let your light shine before men
5) 5:17 Do not think I came to abolish the Law and the Prophets
6) 5:24 Be reconciled to your brother before you offer a gift
7) 5:24 Leave your gift before the altar
8) 5:25 Settle with your adversary before getting to court
9) 5:29 Gouge out your eye rather than sin
10) 5:30 Cut off your right hand rather than sin
11) 5:34, 36 Do not swear by anything
12) 5:37 Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No, 'No'
13) 5:39 Do not resist an evil person
14) 5:39 Turn the other cheek
15) 5:40 Let a man take your tunic
16) 5:41 Go with a man an extra mile
17) 5:42 Give and lend to the one who asks you
18) 5:44 Love your enemies
19) 5:44 Pray for those who persecute you
20) 5:48 Be perfect as your heavenly father
21) 6:1 Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men
22) 6:2 Do not announce your gifts to the needy with trumpets
23) 6:3 Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing when you give
to the needy
24) 6:5 Do not pray so as to be seen by men
25) 6:6 Pray in your room in secret
26) 6:7 Do not pray babbling like pagans
27) 6:9 Pray using the "Lord's Prayer"
28) 6:16 Do not fast so as to show this to men
29) 6:19 Do not store up treasures on earth
30) 6:20 Store up treasures in heaven
31) 6:24 You cannot serve God and money
32) 6:25 Do not worry about food, drink and clothes
33) 6:33 Seek first God's kingdom and righteousness
34) 6:34 Do not worry about tomorrow
35) 7:1 Do not judge others
36) 7:5 Take the plank out of your own eye before removing your brother's speck
37) 7:6 Do not give dogs what is sacred nor throw your pearls to pigs
38) 7:7 Ask, seek and knock
39) 7:12 Do to others what you would have them do to you
40) 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate
41) 7:15 Watch out for false prophets
42) 8:22 Leave the dead to bury their dead
43) 9:38 Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field
44) 10:5 Do not go among the Gentiles or Samaritans
45) 10:6 Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel
46) 10:7 Preach the message 'The kingdom of God is near'
47) 10:8 Heal the sick
48) 10:8 Raise the dead
49) 10:8 Cleanse those who have leprosy
50) 10:8 Drive out demons
51) 10:8 Give freely
52) 10:9 Take no money for the journey
53) 10:10 Take no bag for the journey, or extra tunic, or sandals or a staff
54) 10:11 Search for and stay with some worthy person when you enter a town, until you leave
55) 10:12 Greet the home with your peace as you enter
56) 10:14 Shake the dust off your feet of those who will not welcome you
57) 10:16 Be shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves
58) 10:17 Be on your guard against men
59) 10:19 Do not worry about what to say on arrest
60) 10:23 Flee to another place when you are persecuted
61) 10:26 Do not be afraid of those who call you Beelzebub
62) 10:27 Speak out openly what I say secretly
63) 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body
64) 10:28 Fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell
65) 10:31 Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows
66) 10:34 Do not suppose I came to bring peace on earth
67) 13:18 Listen to what the parable of the sower means
68) 13:43 Hear, if you have ears
69) 14:16 Give the 5000 something to eat
70) 14:18 Bring the five loaves and two fish to Jesus
71) 14:27 Take courage! Don't be afraid (disciples in boat)
72) 14:29 Come (Peter over water)
73) 16:6, 11 Be on your guard against the teaching of the Pharisees and Saducees
74) 16:23 Get behind me, Satan (Peter)
75) 17:7 Get up (disciples on the mountain), don’t be afraid
76) 17:9 Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the
dead
77) 17:27 Take the coin from the mouth of the first fish you catch and pay the temple tax
78) 18:10 Do not look down on one of these little ones
79) 18:15 Show your brother his fault if he sins against you
80) 18:16 Take one or two others along if he will not listen
81) 18:17 Tell the church if he will not listen
82) 18:17 Treat him as a pagan or tax collector if he still will not listen
83) 19:14 Do not hinder little children from coming to me
84) 20:26 Be a servant and slave to other disciples if you want to become great among them
85) 21:2 Go and untie the donkey and colt, and bring them
86) 24:4 Watch out that no-one deceives you
87) 24:6 Do not be alarmed at wars and rumours of wars
88) 24:16 Flee from Judea to the mountains when 'the abomination that causes desolation' is in
the holy place, taking nothing with you
89) 24:20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter
90) 24:23, 26 Don't believe anyone who announces the Christ at that time
91) 24:32 Learn from the fig-tree how to recognise these events
92) 24:42 Keep watch, because you don't know what day your Lord will come
93) 24:43 Understand about the owner being ignorant of the time the thief was coming
94) 24:44 Be ready for the Son of Man's unexpected arrival
95) 26:18 Go to a certain man to prepare for the Passover
96) 26:26 Take and eat; this is my body
97) 26:27 Drink from the cup
98) 26:36 Sit here while I pray
99) 26:38 Stay here and watch with me
100) 26:41 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation
101) 26:46 Rise, let us go
102) 26:52 Put back your sword
103) 28:10 Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee
104) 28:19 Go and make disciples of all nations
105) 28:19 Baptise the disciples
106) 28:20 Teach them to observe all I have commanded you

MARK

107) 1:15 Believe the good news


108) 4:24 Consider carefully what you hear; with the measure you use, it will be measured to
you - and even more
109) 5:19 Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you
110) 6:31 Come to a quiet place and rest
111) 8:7 Distribute to the 4000
112) 9:39 Do not stop one who works miracles in my name because he is not one of you
113) 9:50 Have salt in yourselves
114) 9:50 Be at peace with each other
115) 11:3 Tell them the Lord needs the colt
116) 11:22 Have faith in God
117) 11:24 Believe that you have received whatever you ask for in prayer and it will be yours
118) 11:25 Forgive anyone you hold anything against, when you stand praying
119) 13:10 The Gospel must first be preached to all nations
120) 13:33 Be alert

LUKE

121) 5:4 Put out into deep water and let down the nets for a catch
122) 5:10 Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men
123) 6:27 Do good to those who hate you
124) 6:28 Bless those who curse you
125) 6:35 Lend to your enemies without expecting to get anything back
126) 6:36 Be merciful
127) 6:38 Give
128) 7:50 Go in peace
129) 8:50 Don't be afraid; just believe and she will be healed
130) 9:14 Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each
131) 9:23 Deny yourself and take up your cross daily if you would follow me
132) 9:60 Let the dead bury their own dead but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God
133) 10:4 Do not greet anyone on the road
134) 10:7 Do not move around from house to house
135) 10:8 Eat what is set before you
136) 10:20 Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you
137) 10:20 Rejoice that your names are written in heaven
138) 11:35 See to it that the light within you is not darkness
139) 12:15 Be on your guard against all types of greed
140) 12:24 Consider how God feeds the ravens
141) 12:27 Consider how the lilies grow
142) 12:33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor
143) 12:35 Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning
144) 13:24 Make every effort to enter through the narrow door
145) 14:26 Hate your mother and father, wife and children, brother and sisters, and your own
life, if you would be my disciple
146) 14:33 Give up everything you have if you would be my disciple
147) 16:9 Use worldly wealth to gain friends
148) 17:10 You should say 'we are unworthy servants' when you have done everything you were
told to do
149) 17:32 Remember Lot's wife
150) 18:1 Always pray and never give up
151) 18:6 Listen to what the unjust judge says
152) 20:46 Beware of the teachers of the law
153) 21:28 Stand up and lift up your heads when these things begin to take place
154) 24:49 Stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high

JOHN

155) 1:39 Come and see


156) 4:35 Open your eyes and look at the harvest fields
157) 6:12 Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted
158) 11:39 Take away the stone
159) 11:44 Take off the grave clothes and let him go
160) 12:7 Leave Mary alone (after she poured out the ointment)
161) 12:26 Whoever serves me must follow me
162) 13:14 Wash one another's feet
163) 13:15 Do as I have done for you
164) 13:34 Love one another
165) 14:1 Do not let your hearts be troubled
166) 14:1 Trust in God; trust also in me
167) 14:11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me
168) 15:4 Remain in me
169) 15:9 Remain in my love
170) 15:20 Remember the words I spoke to you; 'no servant is greater than his master'
171) 15:27 You also must testify
172) 16:24 Ask and you will receive and your joy may be complete
173) 19:26 - 27 'Dear woman, here is your son... Here is your mother'
174) 20:17 Do not hold onto me; go and tell my brothers
175) 20:27 Put your finger here
176) 20:22 Receive the Holy Spirit
177) 21:6 Throw your net on the right side of the boat
178) 21:10 Bring some of the fish
179) 21:12 Come and have breakfast
180) 21:15 - 17 Feed my lambs... take care of my sheep... feed my sheep

Jesus’ Commands to his Disciples in the Gospels 
 
Matthew 
1) 
4:17 
Repent 
2) 
4:19  
Follow Me 
3) 
5:12 
Rejoice at pers
48) 10:8 
Raise the dead 
49) 10:8 
Cleanse those who have leprosy 
50) 10:8 
Drive out demons 
51) 10:8 
Give freely 
52) 10
98) 26:36 
Sit here while I pray 
99) 26:38 
Stay here and watch with me 
100) 
26:41 Watch and pray so that you will not fal
142) 
12:33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor 
143) 
12:35 Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning

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