'Years' in the Bible

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

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

When the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, "Because I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I confidently make my defense.

After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

After two years had passed, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix, and because he wanted to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,