But of a truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine upon all the land;

And he said to the vinedresser, 'Behold, these three years I come, seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none; cut it down; why does it also make the land useless?'

Wherefore, watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one with tears.

Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and continued with him fifteen days.

Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months;

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, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The Jews, therefore, said, "In forty-six years this temple was built, and wilt Thou raise it up in three days?"

For from this time forth five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three;