And in 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, how the famine was great over all the land;

and he said to the vinedresser, Behold, three years from which I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and I find none: cut it down; why indeed does it cumber the ground?

Watch therefore, remembering, that three years night and day I ceased not admonishing you with tears.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days;

Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;

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

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

Let a widow not be taken into account under three score years, the wife of one husband,

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

For from now, there shall be five in one house divided, three shall be divided against two, and two against three: