'Three Days' in the Bible

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the people, because they have continued with me now three days, and have nought to eat: and I will not let them depart fasting lest they perish in the way."

and said, "This fellow said, I can destroy the temple of God, and build the it again in three days."

and saying, "Thou that destroyest the temple of God, and buildest it in three days: save thyself. If thou be the son of God, come down from the cross."

and said, "Sir, we remember that this deceiver said while he was yet alive, after three days I will arise again.

"I have compassion on this people, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

And he began to teach them, how that the son of man must suffer many things, and should be reproved of the elders and of the high priests and scribes, and should be killed, and after three days arise again.

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

And they that went by, railed on him: wagging their heads, and saying, "A wretch, that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days.

And it fortuned, after three days, that they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors: both hearing them, and posing them.

Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will rear it up again."

Then said the Jews, "Forty six years was this temple a building: and wilt thou raise it up in three days?"

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

When Festus was come into the province, after three days, he ascended from Caesarea unto Jerusalem.

In the same quarters, the chief man of the isle whose name was Publius, had a lordship: the same received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

And when we came to Syracuse, we tarried there three days,

And it fortuned, after three days, that Paul called the chief of the Jews together. And when they were come, he said unto them, "Men and brethren, though I have committed no thing against the people, or laws of our fathers: yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And they of the people and kindreds, and tongues, and they of the nations, shall see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their bodies to be put in graves.

And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood up upon their feet: and great fear came upon them which saw them.