But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heaven was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine over all the land,

So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?'

So ever be on your guard and always remember that for three years, night and day, I never ceased warning you one by one, and that with tears.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas, but I spent only two weeks with him;

Elijah was a man with feelings just like ours, and yet he earnestly prayed for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

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

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

Because there are three that testify to it, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three agree.

For as Jonah was in the whale's stomach for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

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

three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once I was pelted with stones; three times I have been shipwrecked, and once I have spent a day and a night adrift at sea.