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

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

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

On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

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

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

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.