Lexicon :: Strong's G5140 - treis

“For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish[fn] three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven[fn] that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds[fn] of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it’s good for us to be here. If you want, I will set up[fn] three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

“But if he won’t listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimony[fn] of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”

stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’ ”

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

and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat.

Then he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and rise after three days.

Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it’s good for us to be here. Let’s set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” ​— ​

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with human hands, and in three days I will build another not made by hands.’ ”

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

And Mary stayed with her about three months; then she returned to her home.

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

“But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

As the two men were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it’s good for us to be here. Let’s set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” ​— ​not knowing what he was saying.

“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers? ”

He also said to them, “Suppose one of you[fn] has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

“From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

“He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil? ’

“It’s like leaven[fn] that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds[fn] of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.[fn]

Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,[fn] and I will raise it up in three days.”

So Simon Peter climbed up and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish ​— ​153 of them. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.

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

“At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home for three months.

He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.

While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, “Three men are here looking for you.

“At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were.

As usual, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, arguing and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

and stayed three months. The Jews plotted against him when he was about to set sail for Syria, and so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the Twin Gods[fn] as its figurehead.

Now the brothers and sisters from there had heard the news about us and had come to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did,[fn] and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love ​— ​but the greatest of these is love.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, there are to be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and let someone interpret.

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate.

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas,[fn] and I stayed with him fifteen days.

Don’t accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.