'Three' in the Bible

So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he was saying.

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

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

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."

Jesus replied, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me."

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,