But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land.

So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust 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 went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days,

Elijah was a human being with the same nature as us, and {he prayed fervently} for [it] not to rain, and it did not rain on the land [for] three years and six months.

For just 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.

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

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water.