Sentence examples for groups of disciples from inspiring English sources

Then he began speaking in public again beginning by giving lectures to small groups of disciples.

The Javanese tradition, by which small groups of disciples were initiated by a teacher into higher wisdom, was paralleled in the Sufi teaching methods.

The existence in every society of secret and mystery cults, of sacred brotherhoods, of groups of disciples devoted to holy men, of monastic orders, and, on the broadest scale, of established churches and denominations, points to the need felt to retain the sacred as a special domain that can neither be merged into nor contained within secular society.

In addition, Jalili is favoured by a younger group of disciples of Mesbah's Jebhe Paydari (Steadfast Front).

Most of the buildings were constructed from 1948 to 1958, designed by Wright and a group of disciples and former apprentices, among them Aaron Resnick, Kaneji Domoto, Ted Bower, Charles Warner, Paul Schweiker and David Henken.

In Paris Ignatius soon had another group of disciples whose manner of living caused such a stir that he had to explain himself to the religious authorities.

Originally, the Eucharist was a repetition of the common meal of the local group of disciples with the addition of the bread and the cup signifying the presence of Jesus.

When Islam spread to western Africa in the 12th century, its propagators became known as al-Murābiṭūn (Almoravids), and every missionary who organized a group of disciples became known as a murābiṭ.

For example, in one case Matthew and Luke note that Peter was the speaker in questioning Jesus about a parable, but Mark has attributed these words to the group of disciples (see Matthew 15:15; Luke 8 45; and Mark 7 17).

Valentine, whose own players wondered what a disciple was, tried backtracking today from his statements Wednesday, saying that he did not include Zeile in the initial group of disciples he had spoken of Wednesday on WFAN and then to a reporter.

He gathered a group of disciples, of whom Honorat de Bueil Racan and François Maynard are the best known, and much of his critical influence was exercised in the form of sharp verbal thrusts, some of them preserved in Racan's life of him and in the pages devoted to him in Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux's Historiettes (c. 1659; published 1834).