'Three Days' in the Bible

For, just as 'Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights,' so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Afterwards Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: "My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry, for fear that they should break down on the way."

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

"You who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,' save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

"Sir, we remember that, during his lifetime, that impostor said 'I shall rise after three days.'

"My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat;

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo much suffering, and that he must be rejected by the Councillors, and the Chief Priests, and the Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise again after three days.

for he was instructing his disciples, and telling them-- "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of his fellow men, and they will put him to death, but, when he has been put to death, he will rise again after three days."

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

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

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads, as they said: "Ah! you who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,

But we were hoping that he was the Destined Deliverer of Israel; yes, and besides all this, it is now three days since these things occurred.

"Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

And for three days he was unable to see, and took nothing either to eat or to drink.

"Just three days ago this very hour," Cornelius said, "I was in my house, saying the Afternoon Prayers, when a man in dazzling clothing suddenly stood before me.

Three days after Festus had entered upon his province, he left Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem.

In that neighborhood there was an estate belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He took us up to his house, and for three days entertained us most courteously.

We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days,

Three days after our arrival, Paul invited the leading Jews to meet him; and, when they came, he spoke to them as follows: "Brothers, although I had done nothing hostile to the interests of our nation or to our ancestral customs, yet I was sent from Jerusalem as a prisoner, and handed over to the Romans.

Men of all peoples, and tribes, and languages, and nations look at their dead bodies for three days and a half, and do not allow them to be laid in a grave.

After three days and a half 'the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up upon their feet,' and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.