'Three' in the Bible

And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

“I tell you, Peter,” He said, “the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know Me!”

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

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

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;

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

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.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.

"Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died."

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.

And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

About three in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius!”

This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.

While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient [to the word of God], discrediting and speaking evil of the Way (Jesus, Christianity) before the congregation, Paul left them, taking the disciples with him, and went on holding daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus [instead of in the synagogue].

Passing through those districts he encouraged the disciples in frequent addresses, and then came into Greece, and spent three months there.

And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.Once I was stoned by my enemies.Three times I was shipwrecked.I have spent a night and a dayin the open sea.

Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me.

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Jesus, called Justus, also sends greeting. These three are Hebrew converts. They alone among such have worked loyally with me for the Kingdom of God--they are men who have been a comfort to me.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

But leave out the court [of the Gentiles] which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles (the nations); and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months (three and one-half years).

And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth.”

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that she would be nourished there for a thousand two hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years).

But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time and times and half a time (three and one-half years), away from the presence of the serpent (Satan).

And the beast was given a mouth (the power of speech), uttering great things and arrogant and blasphemous words, and he was given freedom and authority to act and to do as he pleased for forty-two months (three and a half years).

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

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.