'Three' in the Bible

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

He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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

Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."

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

Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.

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

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

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

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

Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.

Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"

He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

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

He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."

He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

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

The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"

"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"

Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

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

This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.

This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days 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 received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was "The Twin Brothers."

Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

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

It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

But now faith, hope, and love remain -- these three. The greatest of these is love.

If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

For there are three who testify:

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

I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"

By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

I saw coming 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, something like frogs;

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

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