Three is the first geometrical figure.
Two straight lines cannot enclose space, or form a plane figure; neither can two plan surfaces form a solid. Three lines are necessary to form a plan figure; and three dimensions of length, breadth, and height, are necessary to form a solid.
Three, therefore, stands for that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and entire.
All things that are complete are stamped with this number three.
God’s attributes are three: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
John 10:30 (D-R)
30 I and the Father are one.
Luke 1:35 (D-R)
35 And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Three is the Number representing the Holy Trinity.
The number three is associated to the triangle by its geometrical form.
The mystic, Marian Visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, Ann-Catherine Emmerick perceived the Holy Spirit as the Eye of God in the center of a triangle.
Man is composed of a body, a soul and a spirit.
Three times in the Gospels Jesus resuscitates a dead body: the girl of Jairus (Luke. 8:54); the son of the widow of Nain (Luke. 7:14); and Lazarus (John. 11:43).
There are three great temptations of Jesus in the desert. (Luke. 4:2)
Three times in the Gospels Jesus announces his passion.
Joseph and the Virgin Mary lost the Jesus Child for three days, to finally find him at the Temple. (Luke. 2:46)
Jesus fell three times when carrying his cross.
There were three witnesses of the Transfiguration of Jesus: Peter, John and James. Those are the same apostles who were witnesses to his agony.
There are three years of the public ministry of Jesus-Christ.
There were three people who were crucified on the Calvary including Jesus. (John. 19:18)
There were three hours of darkness on all the earth, from midday to three o'clock, when Jesus was nailed on the cross. (Matthew. 27:45)
It was at the third hour Jesus was crucified; and it was for three hours (from the 6th to the 9th) that darkness shrouded the Divine Sufferer and Redeemer. The “loud voice” at the end of those twice three hours, was when, “about the ninth hour,” He cried, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
With the light at the ninth hour came the Divine declaration, “It is finished.” So divinely finished, completed, and perfected, that now there is no such darkness for those who have died with Christ.
Three times the apostle Peter renounces Jesus and by three times also he affirms his love for Him. (Luke. 22:56-65; John. 21:15-19)
The Virgin Mary remained three months with Elizabeth for the birth of John the Baptist.
There are three theological virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity.
There are three attributes of the Christ: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."
Under the reign of David, a famine lasted three years. (2 Samuel 21:1)
By three times, Elijah laid down on a child, then he returned him to life. (1 Kings 17:21)
There are three towns of refuge. (Deuteronomy. 19:2)
Moses is hidden three months after his birth. (Exodus. 2:2)
There were three annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem. (Exodus. 34:23)
There were three days of fast of the Jews of Susa. (Isaiah. 4:16)
Jonah remained in the belly of the fish three days. (Jonah. 2:1)
Three mysterious men visited Abraham. (Genesis. 18:2)
There are three sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Genesis. 6:10)
There were three floors of the Ark of Noah. (Genesis. 6:16)
Jesus receives the baptism of John the Baptist at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he dies on April 3 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (and by 3 times will be repeated the earthquake which will follow his death), and resurrects 3 days after 3 o'clock in the morning.
On the image of the Holy Shroud on which is represented the Holy Face of Jesus, on his face, we see to appear a casting of blood in form of "3". This mark is the testimony that the Very Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, have participated perfectly in the Holy Sacrifice.
There are three great ecstasies of the Virgin Mary during her life: at the moment of the conception, the birth of Jesus and her Assumption, according to visions of Maria Valtorta. According to her, the Virgin Mary entered an ecstatic sleep during three days before her Assumption.
The Virgin Mary was three years old when her parents brought her to Jerusalem to receive in the Temple the blessings of the priests.
The trip of the Holy Family in Egypt lasted three years.
According to the book "Document of Damas" from the writings of the library of Qumran, three types of traps are tended by Satan to catch Israel: the lust, the richness and the profanation of the sanctuary.
The inscription "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of Jews" on the cross of Jesus was written in three different languages.
At the age of three, saint Joseph received from God the perfect use of the reason, an infused science, a sublime prayer and growing virtues, according to visions of Mary Agreda.
There are three porticoes of the Saint Peter Basilica, in Rome, which are respectively dedicated to the three saints: Peter, John, James. That of right-hand side (by entering) dedicated to saint James, is called "the door of gold". The tradition holds that the Pope opens solemnly this door every 25 years - 1925, 1950, 1975, 2000...
The three acts of the existence: the Birth, the Life and the Death.
There are three great divisions completing time—past, present, and future.
The number three, therefore, must be taken as the number of Divine fulness. It signifies and represents the Holy Spirit as taking of the things of Christ and making them real and solid in our experience. It is only by the Spirit that we realise spiritual things. Without Him and His gracious operation, all is surface work: all is what a plane figure is to a solid (John 3:6). He it is who has wrought all our works in us, and by whom alone we can serve or worship (John 4:24).
Hence it is that the Holy of Holies, which was the central and highest place of worship, was a cube.
In the first book of the Bible, Genesis we have sovereignty in giving life—the Father, the beginning of all things; in the second Exodus we have the oppressor and the Deliverer—the Son redeeming His people; while in the third Leviticus we have the Spirit prescribing, and ordering, and empowering people for Divine worship.
“The Spirit, the water, and the blood,” are the three divinely perfect witness to the grace of God on earth (1 John 5:7).
The first sin of Eve involved :
Adding, Altering and Omitting, the Word of God when in discussion with Satan. (Genesis 2:16, Genesis 3:2, Genesis 3:3)
Jesus says to the Devil three times "It is written" when given the three temptations.
Genesis 1:3 (KJV 1900)
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Three Hours is 180 Minutes
Genesis 1:3–4 (KJV 1900)
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
180 + 180 = 360