'Three Days' in the Bible

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

And Jesus, having called His disciples near, said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest haply they faint in the way."

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

and saying, "Thou Who destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save Thyself: if Thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross."

saying, Sir, we were reminded that that Deceiver said, while yet living, 'After three days I rise again;'

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat;

And He began to teach them, that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and the high 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 delivered up into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and, having been killed, after three days He will rise again."

and they will mock Him and will spit upon Him, and will scourge Him, and will kill Him; and after three days He will rise again."

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

And those passing by railed on Him, wagging their beads, and saying, "Aha! Thou Who destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days!

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

The Jews, therefore, said, "In forty-six years this temple was built, and wilt Thou raise it up in three days?"

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

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

Now, in the districts round about that place, were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius; who, receiving us, entertained us hospitably three days.

And, landing at Syracuse, we remained three days:

And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together those who were chief men of the Jews; and, when they came together, he said to them, "Brethren, having done nothing contrary to the people, or to our ancestral customs, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

And some of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations, look upon their corpses three days and a half; and they suffer not their corpses to be put into a tomb.

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