Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

What Jesus teaches about discipleship in Mark's Gospel A disciple is someone who learns from another. We can learn, from the call of the early disciples about the nature of discipleship itself that if we are going to be disciples of Jesus we need to leave everything behind and follow Jesus. In the opening chapter of the gospel, Jesus calls five men to be his disciples. The first four are called by the lakeside in Galilee. They were fishermen. Simon and Andrew, his brother were fishing while the other brothers, James and John, were mending their nets. Jesus told them to leave everything and follow him. He said to Simon and Andrew that they were to become fishers of men. The cost of discipleship means anyone who wishes to be a follower of Jesus must:- Leave self behind, he must take up his cross, and come with me. To leave self behind does not just mean denying oneself. It does not mean going without certain pleasures in life like s