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

on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates.

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water.

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took [and] put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."

And Jesus summoned his disciples [and] said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way."

So Peter answered [and] said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good [that] we are here! If you want, I will make here three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two [others], so that by {the testimony} of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them."

Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that during this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times!"

[and] said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild [it] within three days.'"

And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside [and] wept bitterly.

and saying, "The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

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

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat.

And he began to teach them that it was necessary [for] the Son of Man to suffer many [things] and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise.