And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land;

And he said to the vine-dresser, Behold, three years I am come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find not: cut it off; wherefore also does it leave the earth unemployed?

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.

Then after three years I came up to Jerusalem to examine Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.

Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.

From the sunrising three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; and from the sun-setting three gates.

For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

For three are testifying (in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.

And three are testifying in the earth,) the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three are for one.