'Three Days' in the Bible

for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

and said, “This man stated, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.’”

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

and said, “Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am to rise again.’

“I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat.

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later.”

They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again.”

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Festus then, having arrived in the province, three days later went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us courteously three days.

After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.