So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!