'Years' in the Bible

But a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

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.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.

And I will say to myself, "You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!"'

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?'

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

Then shouldn't this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?"

but he answered his father, 'Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

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

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

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

When the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, "Because I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I confidently make my defense.

After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

After two years had passed, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix, and because he wanted to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

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

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out."

"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

He seized the dragon -- the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan -- and tied him up for a thousand years.

The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Now when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from his prison