There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;

So he said to his gardener 'Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?'

Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.

Three years afterwards I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter, and I stayed a fortnight with him.

Elijah was only a man like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell upon the land for three years and a half.

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

The man who had received the three thousand pounds came up and brought three thousand more. 'Sir,' he said, 'you entrusted me with three thousand pounds; look, I have made another three thousand!'

For, just as 'Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights,' so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

But to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is being tended for 'one year, and for two years, and for half a year' in safety from the Serpent.

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

For from this time, if there are five people in a house, they will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

The man who had received the three thousand pounds went at once and traded with it, and made another three thousand.