'Three Days' in the Bible

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.

But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.

I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;

And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.

For he was giving his disciples teaching, and saying to them, The Son of man is given up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death; and when he is dead, after three days he will come back from the dead.

And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.

He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;

After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.

So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.

And going into the harbour at Syracuse, we were waiting there for three days.

Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God went into them, and they got up on their feet; and great fear came on those who saw them.