'Three Days' in the Bible

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

Now Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

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

and saying, "You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

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

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat.

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

For he was teaching his disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. 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 scourge him, and kill him. And after three days he will rise."

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

And those who passed by hurled insults at him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,

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

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

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Festus then, three days after arriving in the province, went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days.

After three days Paul called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, "Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb.