The Three Magi that visited Jesus Child, offering to the mother three presents: the gold, the frankincense and the myrrh. The three years of the public ministry of Jesus-Christ. Those are the same apostles who were witnesses to his agony. The three witnesses of the Transfiguration of Jesus: Peter, John and James. Jesus fell three times when carrying his cross. Joseph and the Virgin Mary lost the Jesus Child during three days, to finally find him at the Temple. (Lk 4,2)īy three times in the Gospels Jesus announces his passion. The three great temptations of Jesus in the desert. Three times in the Gospels Jesus resuscitates a dead boby: the girl of Jairus (Lk 8,54) the son of the widow of Nain (Lk 7,14) and Lazarus (Jn 11,43). (Jn 17,11-23)īy three times in Gospels the Father gives a testimony to his Son: during his Baptism on the edge of the Jordan (Mt 3,17) on the Thabor during the Transfiguration (Mt 17,5) and to the Temple during the last Passover, in presence of the Gentiles come to make the knowledge of Jesus (Jn 12,28). According to the Book of rites (Li-ji) the man, intermediary between the sky and the earth, also corresponds to the number three.Ī favorable number associated to the childbirth and to the birth.įor the Egyptians, 3 is the number of the cosmos that comprises three elements: sky, earth and "duat" (zone surrounding the intermediate worlds between the earth and celestial spirits).īy three times in his last speech to the apostles Jesus prays in order that they become One like Him and the Father are One. Number of the man because this one is composed of a body, a soul and a spirit. Furthermore, the number 3 being associated to the triangle by its geometrical form, the Holy Spirit is also linked to the triangle and with reason: the clairvoyant Ann-Catherine Emmerick perceived the Holy Spirit as the Eye of God in the center of a triangle. Number representing the Holy Trinity, it is also the number of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity.
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