'Three Days' in the Bible

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise again."

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. After three days he will rise again."

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

29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha. You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

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

The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the Jewish leaders. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,