Now I tell you of a certainty, that there were many widows in the days of Elias, in Israel, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that a grievous famine was upon all the land.

Then said he to the vine-dresser, Lo! for three years have I come, expecting fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it render the ground thus useless?

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by night and by day, I have never ceased with tears to admonish every individual.

Afterwards at the expiration of three years I went up unto Jerusalem to pay a visit to Peter, and I abode with him fifteen days.

Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.

for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

From the east three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; from the west three gates.

Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.

for henceforth five shall be in one house, divided, three against two, and two against three.

For they are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these, even the three, are one.

And there are three which bear witness upon earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are for the same one object.