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

And he said to the vine workman, Behold, three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down, why also waste the ground?

Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

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

Elijah was a man of the same nature as we. And by prayer, he asked for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

from the east, three gates, and from the north, three gates, and from the south, three gates, and from the west, three gates.

For as Jonah was in the belly of the sea-creature three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

The Jews therefore said, This temple was forty-six years being built, and will thou raise it up in three days?

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