'Three' in the Bible

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.

And Peter made answer and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will let me, I will make here three tents, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.

Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you that this night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.

But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.

You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.

I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;

And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.

And Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

For he was giving his disciples teaching, and saying to them, The Son of man is given up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death; and when he is dead, after three days he will come back from the dead.

And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.

We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.

And Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you that you, today, even this night, before the cock's second cry, will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.

He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.

And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

And Mary was with her for about three months and then went back to her house.

And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

And when they were about to go away from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah: having no knowledge of what he was saying.

Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves?

And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;

For from this time, a family of five in one house will be on opposite sides, three against two and two against three.

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

And he said, I say to you, Peter, before the cock's second cry today, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.

And the Lord, turning, gave Peter a look. And the words of the Lord came to Peter's mind, how he had said, This night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will be false to me three times.

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;

Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.

After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

After they had gone three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat; and they had great fear.

Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.

So Peter went to the boat and came back pulling the net to land, full of great fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there was such a number the net was not broken.

Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.

And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.

At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.

And this was done three times: and then the vessel was taken back into heaven.

And, while Peter was turning the vision over in his mind, the Spirit said to him, See, three men are looking for you.

And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven.

And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.

And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,

And he went into the Synagogue, and for three months he was preaching there without fear, reasoning and teaching about the kingdom of God.

And when he had been there three months, because the Jews had made a secret design against him when he was about to take ship for Syria, he made a decision to go back through Macedonia.

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.

And after three months we went to sea in a ship of Alexandria sailing under the sign of the Dioscuri, which had been at the island for the winter.

And going into the harbour at Syracuse, we were waiting there for three days.

And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.

This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

By faith Moses was kept secretly by his father and mother for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a fair child; and they had no fear of the king's orders.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

And a voice came to my ears, from the middle of the four beasts, saying, A measure of grain for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny: and see that you do no damage to the oil and the wine.

And there came to my ears the cry of an eagle in flight in the middle of heaven, saying with a great voice, Trouble, trouble, trouble, to all on the earth, because of the other voices of the horns of the three angels, whose sounding is still to come.

And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God went into them, and they got up on their feet; and great fear came on those who saw them.

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, like frogs.

And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath.

And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors.