'Number' in the Bible

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

And in the evening, they took to him a number of people who had evil spirits; and he sent the spirits out of them with a word, and made well all who were ill;

And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.

And Jesus, having knowledge of this, went away from there, and a great number went after him; and he made them all well,

And the works of power which he did there were small in number because they had no faith.

And he came out and saw a great number of people and he had pity on them, and made well those of them who were ill.

And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?

And a great number went after him; and he made them well there.

But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

And when they were going out from Jericho, a great number went after him.

Again, he sent other servants to them, a greater number than the first, but the tenant farmers treated them the same way.

For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

One of them, a lawyer [an expert in Mosaic Law], asked Jesus a question, to test Him:

For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.

And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.

And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.

And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

And a number of women were there, watching from a distance, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, waiting on his needs.