'Three Days' in the Bible

for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."

and said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.'"

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

and said, "We remember, sir, that when this impostor was alive he said, 'I will rise after three days.'

"I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat.

And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

for he was teaching his disciples, telling them that the Son of man would be betrayed into the hands of men, that they would kill him, and that when he was killed he would rise again after three days.

who will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him; then after three days he will rise again."

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

Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "Ha! You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days!

Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!

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

"This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!"

For three days he remained sightless, he neither ate nor drank.

"Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress,

Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

There was an estate in the neighbourhood which belonged to a man called Publius, the governor of the island; he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

We put in at Syracuse and stayed for three days.

Three days later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.

For three days and a half men from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their corpses, refusing to let their corpses be buried;

But after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered them; they stood on their feet (terror fell on those who saw them)