'Three Days' in the Bible

For as Jonah was in the whale's stomach for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home."

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the temple of God, and build it again in three days.'"

and saying, "You who would tear down the temple and build another in three days, save yourself! If you are really the Son of God, come down from the cross."

and said, "Sir, we remember that that pretender said while He was living, 'After three days I will rise again.'

"My heart goes out in pity for these people, for they have been staying with me three days now, and they have nothing left to eat.

Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again."

and they will make sport of Him, and spit on Him, and flog Him, and kill Him, but three days after He will rise again."

"We ourselves have heard Him say, 'I will tear down this temple built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You are the man who would tear down the temple and build another in three days!

And after three days they finally found Him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

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

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

and for three days he could not see, and he did not eat or drink anything.

Now three days after his arrival Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, owned estates in that part of the island, and he welcomed us and entertained us with hearty hospitality for three days.

We landed at Syracuse and stayed there three days.

Three days later, he invited the leading men of the Jews to come to see him, and when they came, he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our forefathers; yet at Jerusalem I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner.

For three days and a half men of all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look upon their lifeless bodies, and will not let them be buried.

After three days and a half the breath of life from God came into them again, and they stood on their feet, and consternation seized those who saw them.