- Three times Four, thus, the whole of creation.
- Twelve Disciples.
- Twelve Tribes of Israel.
- "Twelve is the number of what is completed, which forms a whole, a perfect and harmonious unit. In the ancient civilizations, like Oriental and Judaic, it corresponds to the plenitude, the completion and the integrality of a thing."
- "Symbol of material and spiritual food, because of the 12 breads which Jesus Christ broke to the Last Supper, Himself being the Bread of Life." -- http://www.ridingthebeast.com/numbers/nu12.php