I tell you for a fact, In Israel there were many widows during the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land:

So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?'

Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Cephas. I stayed a fortnight with him.

Elijah was a man with a nature just like our own; but he offered prayer that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain;

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

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

"This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!"

So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

After this there will be five at issue in one house, three divided against two and two against three,

"Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress,

three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day;

The witnesses are three, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three of them are in accord.