I tell you of a truth, Many widows were in Israel, in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, while a great famine was thro' all the land.

A man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came, seeking fruit thereon and found none. Then said he to the keeper of the vineyard, Behold three years I come seeking fruit of this fig tree, and find aone: cut it down: why doth it also cumber the ground?

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, I ceased not to warn every one, night and day, with tears.

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

Elijah was a man of like passions with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the land for three years and six months.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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

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

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

For there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one.

And there are three that testify in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.