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

And he said to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down, why does it encumber the ground?

Therefore watch and remember that for the time of three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.

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

From the east three gates, from the north three gates, from the south three gates, and from the west three gates.

Then the Jews said, This temple was forty-six years building, and will you rear it up in three days?

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

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

For there are three that bear witness {\I in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.

And there are three that bear witness on the earth:} the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are into the one.