'Third Day' in the Bible

There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

On the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He "lifted up" the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

He said to the people, "Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives."

On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day.

If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled, and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity.

It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and on the following day, but what is left over until the third day must be burned up.

If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,

On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites, presented an offering.

He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

"'On the third day you must offer eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

"Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities -- Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

On the third day you should go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. Stay near the stone Ezel.

On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he approached David, the man threw himself to the ground.

Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, "Return to me on the third day."

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people home. They left happy and contented because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, "Return to me on the third day."

They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

It so happened that on the third day Esther put on her royal attire and stood in the inner court of the palace, opposite the king's quarters. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the palace, opposite the entrance.

The king's scribes were quickly summoned -- in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. They wrote out everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia -- a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all -- to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.

"Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day!

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised." And they became greatly distressed.

and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised."

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised."

But he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.

They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again."

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

and said to them, "Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

and on the third day they threw the ship's gear overboard with their own hands.

and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,