'Years' in the Bible

For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.

Years ago Theudas appeared, professing to be a person of importance, and a body of men, some four hundred in number, joined him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and annihilated.

And God declared that Abraham's posterity should for four hundred years make their home in a country not their own, and be reduced to slavery and be oppressed.

"And when he was just forty years old, it occurred to him to visit his brethren the descendants of Israel.

"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.

This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.

So God turned from them and gave them up to the worship of the Host of Heaven, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets, "'Were they victims and sacrifices which you offered Me, forty years in the Desert, O House of Israel?

There he found a man of the name of Aeneas, who for eight years had kept his bed, through being paralysed.

For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.

Then, after overthrowing seven nations in the land of Canaan, He divided that country among them as their inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years;

Next they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who reigned forty years.

This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the Lord's Message.

Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.

"Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?"

Then, at a sign from the Governor, Paul answered, "Knowing, Sir, that for many years you have administered justice to this nation, I cheerfully make my defence.

"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.

But after the lapse of fully two years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and being desirous of gratifying the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.

After this Paul lived for fully two years in a hired house of his own, receiving all who came to see him.