11 Bible Verses about The Number Twelve

It had a wall, great and high; and it had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel;

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Then they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the broken pieces of the five barley loaves, which remained after they had eaten.

In the midst of the street of the city, and on each side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit, and yielded its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks during the day,, he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and thus he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun; and the moon was under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars;

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast.

Do you think that I can not now call upon my Father, and he would cause more than twelve legions of angels to stand by me?

Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, That, in the restoration, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.