Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

For from this time, a family of five in one house will be on opposite sides, three against two and two against three.

Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;