Seguir a Jesus

19 He said to them, "Just like you have been gathering fish, come with me and I will teach you how to gather people to become my disciples." [MET] 20 They immediately left the work that they were doing with their fishing nets, and they went with him.

Jesus invited Matthew to go with him, and he told the Pharisees that they needed to repent.

9 As Jesus was going away from there, he saw me, a man named Matthew. I was sitting at a table where I collected taxes for the Roman government. He said to me, "Come with me and become my disciple!" So I got up and went with him.

Jesus told Nathaniel that he knew about him supernaturally, but that he would do things that were more surprising than that.

43 The next day Jesus decided to leave the Jordan River valley. He went to Galilee district and (OR, on the way there he) found a man named Philip. Jesus said to him, "Come with me!"

Jesus told three people what it would cost them if they became his disciples.

57 As Jesus and the disciples were walking along the road, one man said to him, "I will go with you (sg) wherever you go!" 58 In order that the man might know what he could expect if he went with Jesus, Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes in the ground in which to live, and birds have nests, but even though I am the one who came from heaven, I do not have a home where I can sleep!" 59 Jesus told another man, "Come with me!" But the man said, "Lord/Sir, let me go home first. After my father dies I will bury him, and then I will come with you." 60 But Jesus said to him, "God considers that those who do not have eternal life are dead [MET]. Let those people do the work of burying people who die. As for you, go and tell people about how God wants ◄to rule/to have complete control over► people’s lives!" 61 Someone else said, "Lord, I will come with you and be your disciple, but first let me go home to say goodbye to my relatives." 62 Jesus said to him, "Anyone who is plowing his field should not look back to see what he has done. He must look forward to what is ahead. Similarly, anyone who continues to be concerned about his family and other things he has left behind is not fit to serve me and tell others about how God wants to rule [MTY] people’s lives."

Jesus taught the disciples more about what they would face as his disciples, and about his coming again.

24 Then Jesus said to us disciples, "If any one of you wants to be my disciple, you must not do only what you yourself want to do. You must be willing to let people hurt you and disgrace you. That is like what they do to criminals whom they force to carry a cross [MET] to the place where the criminals will be executed. That is what anyone who wants to be my disciple must do.

26 "If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters more than [HYP] he loves me, he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life! 27 People who are ready to execute a prisoner make him carry his cross [MET] to the place where others will nail him on it. Only those who are willing to allow others to hurt them and disgrace them like that because of being my disciples, and who are willing to obey what I teach, can be my disciples.

28 Peter exclaimed, "You know that we have left behind everything and we have become your disciples. So, ◄what about us/will God <accept us/reward us>►?" 29 Jesus replied, "I want you to know this: Those who have left their houses, their brothers, their sisters, their father, their mother, their children, or their plots of ground, to be my disciples and to proclaim the good news, 30 will receive in this life 100 times as much as they left behind. That will include houses and people as dear as brothers and sisters and mothers and children, and plots of ground. Furthermore, although people will persecute them here on earth because they believe in me, in the future age they will ◄have eternal life/live with God eternally►. 31 But I warn you all: Many of you who now consider yourselves to be very important will be unimportant at that future time, and many of you who now consider yourselves to be unimportant will be very important at that future time!"

Jesus replied to the Pharisees’ objection to his claim to be like a light for the people of the world.

12 Jesus spoke to the people again. He said, "I am like a light [MET] for all the people in [MTY] the world. Just like a light reveals what has been in the darkness [MET], I reveal God’s truth to them. Those who walk in the darkness are unaware of what is around them. But those who become my disciples will always be aware of God’s truth [MET]. They will have my light which shows them how to have eternal life."

26 If any of these Greeks or anyone else wants to serve me, they must become my disciples. Then, after they die, they will be where I am, in heaven. My Father will honor all those who serve me.

21 One of the reasons why God chose you is that you would suffer. When Christ suffered for you, he became an example for you, in order that you would ◄imitate what/do like► he did. 22 Remember how Christ conducted himself:

He never sinned,

And he never said [MTY] anything to deceive people.

23 When people insulted him, he did not insult them in return.

When people caused him to suffer, he did not threaten ◄to get revenge/to cause them to suffer►.

Instead, he decided to let God, who always judges justly, prove that he ◄was innocent/had done nothing that is wrong► (OR, he left his case in the hands of God, who always judges justly).

15 Instead, by loving others as we behave as God’s truth requires (OR, speak in a loving manner what is true), we will become more and more like Christ in every way. He is the one who controls/guides all his people [MET], just like a person’s head controls/guides his body.

4 You must obey all of my laws [DOU], because it is I, Yahweh your God, who am commanding those laws.