But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him 15 days.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on 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.

For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.
Once I was stoned by my enemies.
Three times I was shipwrecked.
I have spent a night and a day
in the open sea.

From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.