Sentence examples for first disciple from inspiring English sources

Gabbard is not the first disciple of Butler's to enter politics.

James wanted to box, and the two of them found their way to Kronk, where James became Emanuel's first disciple.

He initiated his first disciple in 1493 at Mathura, which became the centre of his activities, though he undertook several pilgrimages throughout India, propagating his doctrine of bhakti (devotion) to the god Krishna.

Dr. Leakey's first disciple, Dr. Jane Goodall, who discovered that chimpanzees made tools, has become an international scientific celebrity, and Dr. Dian Fossey, who lived among the gorillas of Rwanda and was killed there in 1985, was played by Sigourney Weaver in the movie "Gorillas in the Mist".

The son of a wealthy householder at Hamsavati, Kaundinya saw the monk who was the first disciple of Padmuttara Buddha.

Kaundinya's previous rebirth bestowed on the Buddha and the sangha and wished that he was to be the first disciple of a future Buddha.

John and his brother James were among the first disciples called by Jesus.

The language-hop from the spoken Aramaic of Jesus and the first disciples to the Koine Greek of the evangelists has led to centuries of retrojection and retronegation!

"I believe he saw himself as a Jewish Christian, like the first disciples," said Gilbert Levine, the conductor and a close friend of the cardinal.

Mukai Kyorai, original name Mukai Kanetoki, also called Rakushisha (born 1651, Nagasaki, Japan died Oct. 8, 1704, Kyōto) Japanese haiku poet of the early Tokugawa period (1603 1867) who was one of the first disciples of the haiku master Matsuo Bashō.

It struck me that late-coming is the drama's very subject and source, the discomfort with a modern, convivial, and compromised Christianity that doesn't share the total existential devotion of the first disciples.