But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

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

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

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

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

The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"

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

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.