'Three' in the Bible

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.

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took [and] put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."

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."

So Peter answered [and] said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good [that] we are here! If you want, I will make here three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two [others], so that by {the testimony} of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them."

Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that during this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times!"

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

And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside [and] wept bitterly.

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.'

"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 Peter answered [and] said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good [that] we are here! And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

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."

For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold her.

And Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that today--this night--before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times!"

"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 immediately a rooster crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered the statement, how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times," and throwing himself down, he began to weep.

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,

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

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].

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 as they were going away from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good [for] us to be here. And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah," not knowing what he was saying.

Which of these three do you suppose became a neighbor of the man who fell among the robbers?"

And he said to them, "Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'

It is like yeast that a woman took [and] hid in three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."

And he said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times [that you] know me!"

And the Lord turned around [and] looked intently at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

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?"

"{Why} was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"

Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I say to you, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added.

And it happened that [there was] an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. {He} was brought up [for] three months in [his] father's house,

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

And this happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again.

And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were [staying].

{And as was his custom}, Paul went in to them and on three Sabbath [days] he discussed with them from the scriptures,

So he entered into the synagogue [and] was speaking boldly for three months, discussing and attempting to convince [them] concerning the kingdom of God.

and stayed three months. [Because] a plot was made against him by the Jews [as he] was about to set sail for Syria, he came to a decision to return through Macedonia.

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

Now [when] Festus set foot in the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the [regions] around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, {named} Publius, who welcomed us [and] entertained [us] hospitably [for] three days.

Now after three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian [one] {with the twin gods Castor and Pollux as its insignia}.

And putting in at Syracuse, we stayed [there] three days.

And from there the brothers, [when they] heard the [news] about us, came to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns. [When he] saw them, Paul gave thanks to God [and] took courage.

Now it happened that after three days, he called together those who were the most prominent of the Jews. And [when] they had assembled, he said to them, "Men [and] brothers, [although] I had done nothing against [our] people or the customs of our fathers, from Jerusalem I was delivered [as] a prisoner into the hands of the Romans,

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, [it must be] on one occasion two or at most three, and {one after the other}, and one must interpret.

Let two or three prophets speak, and the others evaluate.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water.

Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would depart from me.

This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. {By the testimony} of two or three witnesses every word will be established.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days,

Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

By faith Moses, [when he] was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw the child [was] handsome, and they were not afraid of the edict of the king.

Elijah was a human being with the same nature as us, and {he prayed fervently} for [it] not to rain, and it did not rain on the land [for] three years and six months.

For [there] are three that testify,

the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are {in agreement}.

And I heard [something] like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not damage the olive oil and the wine!"

And I looked, and I heard one eagle flying {directly overhead}, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, from the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow the trumpet!"

By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed--by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths.

And [those] from peoples and tribes and languages and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb.

And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits like frogs.

And the great city was [split] into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his furious wrath.

on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates.