But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west.

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

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