What is the significance of the twelve baskets full of bread that were picked up by the disciples?

Also Matt 14:13-21

What is the significance of the baskets left over when Jesus fed the 5000 men (plus children and women) with 5 loaves of bread and 2 pieces of fish? I am asking because in all the accounts of this miracle, the extra 12 baskets were recorded as an important occurrence despite the little differences in the account of the event by Matthew and John.

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