'Days' in the Bible

In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

When the days of his ministry were completed, he went back home.

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said,

“The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.”

In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah

in holiness and righteousnessin His presence all our days.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

When the eight days were completed for His circumcision, He was named Jesus—the name given by the angel before He was conceived.

And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but His parents did not know it.

After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

for 40 days to be tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, He was hungry.

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

On one of those days while He was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord’s power to heal was in Him.

But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them—then they will fast in those days.”

During those days He went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.

About eight days after these words, He took along Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

After the voice had spoken, only Jesus was found. They kept silent, and in those days told no one what they had seen.

When the days were coming to a close for Him to be taken up, He determined to journey to Jerusalem.

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.

Then He told the disciples: “The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won’t see it.

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

“These things that you see—the days will come when not one stone will be left on another that will not be thrown down!”

because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all the things that are written.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Finding that He was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

The one named Cleopas answered Him, “Are You the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that happened there in these days?”