In very truth I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

So be on guard; and remember that for three years I ceased not to admonish you all, night and day, even with tears.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him.

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

"For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the sea-monster's belly, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.