'Years' in the Bible

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

Just then, a woman who had suffered from bleeding for 12 years approached from behind and touched the tassel on His robe,

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk. (She was 12 years old.) At this they were utterly astounded.

But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well along in years.

“How can I know this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

There was also a prophetess, Anna, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well along in years, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.

As He began His ministry, Jesus was about 30 years old and was thought to be theson of Joseph, son of Heli,

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

because he had an only daughter about 12 years old, and she was at death’s door.While He was going, the crowds were nearly crushing Him.

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”

for this sign of healing had been performed on a man over 40 years old.

God spoke in this way:His descendants would be strangersin a foreign country,and they would enslaveand oppress them 400 years.

After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices40 years in the wilderness?

There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.

And for about 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness;

This all took about 450 years. After this, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Then they asked for a king, so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.

And this went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the message about the Lord.

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

When the governor motioned to him to speak, Paul replied: “Because I know you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I am glad to offer my defense in what concerns me.

After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my nation,

After two years had passed, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus, and because he wished to do a favor for the Jews, Felix left Paul in prison.

Then he stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.

But now I no longer have any work to do in these provinces, and I have strongly desired for many years to come to you

I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven 14 years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know, God knows.

Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him 15 days.

Then after 14 years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.

And I say this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not revoke a covenant that was previously ratified by God and cancel the promise.

You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.

No widow should be placed on the official support list unless she is at least 60 years old, has been the wife of one husband,

You will roll them up like a cloak,and they will be changed like a robe.But You are the same,and Your years will never end.

for 40 years.Therefore I was provoked with that generationand said, “They always go astray in their hearts,and they have not known My ways.”

And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for 1,000 years.

He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the 1,000 years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the people who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.

The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of the Messiah, and they will reign with Him for 1,000 years.

When the 1,000 years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison