'Three' in the Bible

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

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."

So Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will make three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them."

So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o'clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.

Jesus said to him, "I tell you the truth, on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."

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

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

and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

At about three o'clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

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

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

So Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise."

They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again."

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!" So they spoke angrily to her.

Jesus said to him, "I tell you the truth, today -- this very night -- before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.'"

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Around three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. 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 think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

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

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."

Jesus replied, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me."

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Jesus replied, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again."

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

"Why wasn't this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"

Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

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

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father's house,

For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.

About three o'clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, "Cornelius."

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

While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Look! Three men are looking for you.

Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,

So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

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

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the "Heavenly Twins" as its figurehead.

We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days.

The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

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

If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.

Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.

Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.

This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no 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 these three are in agreement.

Then I heard something like a voice from among the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat will cost a day's pay and three quarts of barley will cost a day's pay. But do not damage the olive oil and the wine!"

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying directly overhead, proclaiming with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth because of the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow them!"

A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths.

For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.

But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them.

Then I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God's furious wrath.

There are three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.