'Three' in the Bible

For even as Jonas was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, thus shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.

But Jesus, having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good we should be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles: for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elias.

But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.

For where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them.

and said, He said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days build it.

and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend from the cross.

saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.

I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,

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

And Peter answering says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we should be here; and let us make three tabernacles, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elias one.

for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again.

for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

We heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.

And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days,

And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her house.

And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

Which now of these three seems to thee to have been neighbour of him who fell into the hands of the robbers?

And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,

for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:

And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.

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

The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?

Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.

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

But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;

and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea.

And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,

And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears.

Festus therefore, being come into the eparchy, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who received us and gave us hospitality three days in a very friendly way.

And after three months we sailed in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian, with the Dioscuri for its ensign.

And having come to Syracuse we remained three days.

And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, I having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

If any one speak with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;

And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.

Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:

This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;

Against an elder receive not an accusation unless where there are two or three witnesses.

Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;

For they that bear witness are three:

the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.

And I heard as a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius: and do not injure the oil and the wine.

And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to them that dwell upon the earth, for the remaining voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.

By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which goes out of their mouths.

And men of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer their bodies to be put into a sepulchre.

And after the three days and a half the spirit of life from God came into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon those beholding them.

And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as frogs;

And the great city was divided into three parts; and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

On the east three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.