Our civilization has decided ... that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained ...men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The twelve-thousand-day honeymoon is over.... Hands crumble like clay, the mouth, its bewildered tongue, turns yellow with pain....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild... Twelve ragged men, the council of charity Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the twelve lie in the sand by the dry rock Seeing nothing--the sand, the tree, rocks... Without number--and turn away the face To the mind's briefer and more desert place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the sc...riptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out... to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What will you give me if I betray him ...to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »