'Twelve' in the Bible

they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, 'Do ye also wish to go away?'

Jesus answered them, 'Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.

And he spake of Judas, Simon's son, Iscariot, for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.

Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came;