'Days' in the Bible

Now [after] Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,

Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the Judean wilderness

and [after he] had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.

And Jesus said to them, "{The bridegroom's attendants} are not able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But days are coming when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated violently, and the violent claim it.

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

And Jesus summoned his disciples [and] said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way."

And after six days Jesus took along Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.

and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!'

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

And unless those days had been shortened, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

"And immediately after the tribulation of those days, 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.'

For just as the days of Noah [were], so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.

"You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Man will be handed over in order to be crucified."

[and] said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild [it] within three days.'"

and saying, "The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

saying, "Sir, we remember that [while] that deceiver was still alive he said, 'After three days I will rise.'

teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age."

And it happened that in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.

And he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

And [when he] entered again into Capernaum after [some] days, it became known that he was at home.

But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

In those days there was again a large crowd, and they did not have anything they could eat. Summoning the disciples, he said to them,

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat.

And he began to teach them that it was necessary [for] the Son of Man to suffer many [things] and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise.

And after six days, Jesus took along Peter and James and John, and led them to a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them,

for he was teaching his disciples and was telling them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And [when he] is killed, after three days he will rise."

And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill [him], and after three days he will rise."

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

For [in] those days there will be tribulation of such a kind as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will happen.

And if the Lord had not shortened the days, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has shortened the days.

"But in those days, after that tribulation, 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,

Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, [after] arresting him by stealth, they could kill [him].

"We heard him saying, 'I will destroy this temple made by hands, and within three days I will build another not made by hands."

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days,

It happened that in the days of Herod, king of Judea, [there was] a certain priest, Zechariah by name, of the division of Abijah. And {he had a wife} from the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elizabeth.

And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home.

Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion [for] five months, saying,

"Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with [me], to take away my disgrace among people."

Now in those days Mary set out [and] traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire.

And when eight days were completed {so that he could be circumcised}, he was named Jesus, his name [that] [he] was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

And when the days of their purification were completed according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present [him] to the Lord

And [after] the days were completed, while they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. And his parents did not know [it],

And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple [courts], sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them [questions].

forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and [when] they were completed, he was hungry.

But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land.

And it happened that on one of the days as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting [there] who {had come} from every village of Galilee and Judea and [from] Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was [there] in order [for] him to heal.

But days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days."

Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." And they set sail,

Now it happened that about eight days after these words, he took along Peter and John and James [and] went up on the mountain to pray.

And after the voice had occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.

Now it happened that when the days were approaching {for him to be taken up}, he set [his] face to go to Jerusalem.

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answered [and] said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is necessary to work. Therefore come [and] be healed on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath!"

And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully.

And he said to the disciples, "Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see [it].

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man--

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot--they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building.

For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.

And it happened that on one of the days [while] he was teaching the people in the temple [courts] and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders

"[As for] these [things] that you see--days will come in which not [one] stone will be left on [another] stone that will not be thrown down!"

because these are days of vengeance, [so that] all the things that are written can be fulfilled.

Woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people,

So [throughout] the days he was teaching in the temple [courts], and [throughout] the nights he was going out [and] spending the night on the hill that is called [the Mount] of Olives.

And [when he] found out that he was from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him over to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem in those days.

For behold, days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and [the] breasts that did not nurse!'

And one [of them], {named} Cleopas, answered [and] said to him, "[Are] you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?"

After this he went down to Capernaum, and his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there {a few} days.

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee.

So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where} he was two days.

So [when he] arrived, Jesus found he had already [been] four days in the tomb.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. [Although] the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, "Peace to you."

to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit {not many days from now}."

And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (and it was a crowd of persons of about one hundred twenty at the same [place]) [and] said,

'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

And even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed [him] have spoken [about] and proclaimed these days.

For before these days, Theudas rose up saying he was somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined {him}. {He} was executed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and {caused people to follow him in revolt}. And that one perished, and all who followed him were scattered.

Now in these days, [as] the disciples were increasing [in number], a complaint arose by the {Greek-speaking Jews} against the {Hebraic Jews} because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution [of food].

And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

and which, [after] receiving [it] in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua {when they dispossessed the} nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David,

And he was {unable to see} [for] three days, and he did not eat or drink.

and [after] taking food, he regained his strength. And he was with the disciples in Damascus several days.

And when many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted to do away with him.

Now it happened that in those days [after] becoming sick, she died. And [after] washing [her], they placed her in an upstairs room.

And it happened that [he] stayed many days in Joppa with a certain Simon, a tanner.

And Cornelius said, "{Four days ago at this hour}, [the] ninth, I was praying in my house. And behold, a man in shining clothing stood before me

So he ordered [that] they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

Now in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem--who are now his witnesses to the people.