'Three' in the Bible

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

Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

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

And as these were leaving Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles: one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—not realizing what he was saying.

Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”

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

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

And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’

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

And He said, “I say to you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”

The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”