'Three Days' in the Bible

For just as Jonah was in the maw of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

and said, "Sir, we remember that when this impostor was alive he said, 'After three days I will rise again!'

"I pity these people, for they have been staying with me three days now, and they have nothing left to eat.

Then he explained to them for the first time that the Son of Man must go through much suffering, and be refused by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise again three days after.

for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill him, and three days after he is killed he will rise again."

and they will ridicule him and spit on him and flog him and kill him; and three days after he will rise again."

"We ourselves have heard him say, 'I will tear down this sanctuary built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.' "

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! you who would tear down the sanctuary and build one in three days!

But we were hoping that he was to be the deliverer of Israel. Why, besides all this, it is three days since it happened.

Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!"

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

and for three days he could not see, and neither ate nor drank.

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, had estates in that part of the island, and he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days,

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

For three days and a half, men of all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their bodies, and will not let them be buried.

After three days and a half, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror seized those who saw them.