But I tell you of a truth, Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was shut three years and six months, when great famishment was throughout all the land;

Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, 'Behold, this three years have I come and sought fruit in this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down. Why cumbereth it the ground?'

Therefore awake and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one of you, both night and day with tears.

Then after three years, I returned to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

on the east part three gates, and on the north side three gates, and towards the south three gates, and from the west three gates.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Then said the Jews, "Forty six years was this temple a building: and wilt thou raise it up in three days?"

For henceforth there shall be five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.

For there are three that bear record: the spirit, and water, and blood: and these three are one.