But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

So you must be on your guard and remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning any of you, even with tears.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Cephas, and I spent two weeks with him;

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.

There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

For just as Jonah was in the maw of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;

For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.