And I assure you, there were many widows in Israel, in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great famine through all the land;

And he said to the vine-dresser, behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down, why should it cumber the ground?

Watch therefore, remembering that for the space of three years I ceased not by night and by day to warn every one with tears.

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

Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for three years and six months:

On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

for as Jonas 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.

Forty and six years has this temple been in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? but He spake of the temple of his body.

For from this time there shall be five in one family divided, three against two and two against three: