Disciple

The disciples are gathered here for a final meeting with Jesus, still carrying their old hopes about Israel's political restoration even after everything they had witnessed.

The disciples are identified here as the ones first called Christians in Antioch — the name wasn't self-assigned but observed, marking how distinctly this community's allegiance to Jesus stood out to those around them.

The disciples left behind in Pisidian Antioch after the missionaries are expelled are described in striking terms — not devastated or confused, but filled with joy and the Holy Spirit, demonstrating that the gospel's power doesn't depend on the messengers staying.

The disciples who gather around Paul's apparently lifeless body outside Lystra are the young believers from that city — their vigil around him is an act of grief and faith that precedes his miraculous recovery.

Timothy is identified as a disciple before Paul recruits him, establishing that this young man already has a committed faith community vouching for his character.

Disciples are the people Paul systematically visits and strengthens as he travels back through Galatia and Phrygia — the unglamorous follow-up work of consolidating what was planted.

Disciple is used here to describe men who are sincere followers but operating on incomplete knowledge — they've committed to the path without yet receiving the Spirit that defines it.

The disciples are gathered together in one place when the Spirit falls — their collective obedience to Jesus's instruction to wait is the immediate context for the Pentecost event.

The disciples at Tyre are the local believers Paul seeks out during his seven-day layover — the very people through whom the Spirit delivers urgent warnings against going to Jerusalem.

Disciple here identifies Ananias as a committed follower of the Way in Damascus — the very community that Saul had come to arrest, making his assignment all the more terrifying.