'Three Days' in the Bible

"For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the sea-monster's belly, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

However, at last two came forward who said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the Temple of God and build it in three days.'"

"You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

"We recollect, Sir, that when he was living this imposter said, 'I will rise again after three days.'

"My heart aches for the crowd, because they have remained with me three days now, and they have nothing to eat;

for he was explaining to his disciples that the Son of man was to be betrayed into the hands of men, and that they would put him to death, but that after he had been put to death, he would rise again after three days,

who will mock him, spit upon him, flog him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again."

"We heard him say, 'I will tear down this temple made by hands, and in three days I will build another temple not made by hands.'"

And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to 'destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,' save yourself!

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

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

And he remained there three days, seeing nothing, and without eating or drinking.

Cornelius answered. "Three days ago, at this very hour, I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when suddenly a man in a shining robe stood by me,

Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

Now in the neighborhood there were estates belonging to the governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He received us and entertained us for three days courteously.

And touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

Now three days later he called the leading Jews together, and when they were come together he said to them. "Brothers, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of your fathers.

For three days and a half men of all peoples, and tribes, and languages, and nations, look upon their dead bodies, and refuse to let their dead bodies be laid in a tomb.

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon them.