'Three' in the Bible

Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

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.

It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"

He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

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

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?'

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."

He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."