But I tell you truly, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;

So he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?'

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night and day to admonish each one with tears.

Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

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

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

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.

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

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the open sea.