'Three' in the Bible

And Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months, and then returned to her home.

Three days later they found Him in the [court of the] temple, sitting among the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

And as these [men, Moses and Elijah] were leaving Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is delightful and good for us to be here; we should make three [sacred] tents; one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—not realizing what he was saying.

Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who encountered the robbers?”

Then He said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves [of bread];

for from now on five in one household will be divided [over Me], three against two and two against three.

so he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and have found none. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground [depleting the soil and blocking the sunlight]?’

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three peck measures of flour until it was all leavened.”

Jesus said, “I say to you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will [utterly] deny three times that you know Me.”

It was now about the sixth hour (noon), and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.),