And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land;

And he said to the vine-dresser, Behold, three years I am come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find not: cut it off; wherefore also does it leave the earth unemployed?

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.

Then after three years I came up to Jerusalem to examine Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.

Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.

For as Jonas was in the whale's belly 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 sunrising three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; and from the sun-setting three gates.

Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

For from now shall five be in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

For three are testifying (in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.

And three are testifying in the earth,) the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three are for one.