'Three' in the Bible

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Around three in the morning, He came toward them walking on the sea.

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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

About noon and at three, he went out again and did the same thing.

“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times!”

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

and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over the whole land.

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.

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 of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

And Peter answered and 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.

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

and they will mock Him, spit on Him, flog Him, and kill Him, and He will rise after three days.”

So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very 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 within three days I will build another made without hands.

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” When he thought about it, he began to weep.

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

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

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

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto 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, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

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

“I tell you, Peter,” He said, “the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know Me!”

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three,

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.

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

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.

"Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died."

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

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

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.

And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

About three in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius!”

This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.

While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient [to the word of God], discrediting and speaking evil of the Way (Jesus, Christianity) before the congregation, Paul left them, taking the disciples with him, and went on holding daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus [instead of in the synagogue].

Passing through those districts he encouraged the disciples in frequent addresses, and then came into Greece, and spent three months there.

And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.Once I was stoned by my enemies.Three times I was shipwrecked.I have spent a night and a dayin the open sea.

Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me.

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

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

Jesus, called Justus, also sends greeting. These three are Hebrew converts. They alone among such have worked loyally with me for the Kingdom of God--they are men who have been a comfort to me.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

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

But leave out the court [of the Gentiles] which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles (the nations); and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months (three and one-half years).

And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth.”

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that she would be nourished there for a thousand two hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years).