But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;

And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground?

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

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

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

on the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and 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 whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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

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

For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.