And I tell you, in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine was on all the land:

Then he said to his vine-dresser, Behold, for three years I have come and sought fruit on this fig-tree, and I have found none; cut it down; why does it occupy the ground unprofitably?

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

Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem, in order to become personally acquainted with Peter; and I remained with him fifteen days:

Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on 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 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.

Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?

For from this time forth there shall be five in one house at variance, three with two, and two with three.