Properties of the number 100
Symbolism
Number individualizing the part of a whole, which is itself only the part of a greater totality.
Symbolism of the martyrdom, according to saint Augustin.
It is the part of the part, the microcosm of the macrocosm, according to R. Allendy. It is also the individuality of the microcosm.
This number corresponds to the Hebraic letter "qoph", and to the nineteenth mystery of the Tarot: the Sun, symbol of individuality.
In the Christian literature, the number 100 appears as symbol of the celestial beatitude.
Bible
The hundredth ewe that was lost in the parable of Jesus. (Mt 18,12)
Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds to embalm Jesus. (Jn 19,39)
The hundredfold is promised to who has left all for Our Lord. (Mk 10,30)
The fourteen epistles of Paul have on the whole 100 chapters.
Obadiah saved 100 prophets. (1 K 18,4)
Saul promised his daughter Merab in marriage to David if he brought back the foreskins of 100 Philistines. (1 S 18,25)
If someone accuses wrongly a virgin of Israel pays 100 silver shekels. (Dt 22,19)
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. (Gn 21,5)
General
Hundred Roman soldiers escorted Jesus during his condemnation when he crossed the city to go to the yard of Herod to then return to Pilate, according to the visions of Maria Valtorta. These same soldiers again escorted him during the bearing of the his Cross until the Golgotha.
According to the Gospel of Barnabas, chapter 34, Adam and Eve cried during 100 years their sin after their fall.
The construction of the Great Pyramid lasted 100 years, according to Edgar Cayce.
An ancient Indian belief that we find in the Dîghanikâya refers to the progressive decline of the man marked by a continuous reduction in the human lifespan. At the period of the first Buddha, Vipassi, who made his appearance there are 91 Kalpa (that is to say 91 times 4320000000 of our mortal years), the human lifespan was 80000 years; at the second Buddha, Sikhi (there is 31 Kalpa), 70000 years, and so on. The seventh Buddha, Gautama, makes his appearance when the human life is not more than 100 years, that is to say reduced to its extreme limit.
At the Peruvians at the time of Inti-Kapak (between 32th and 15th century before J.-C.) each groups of 100 persons was commanded by a centurion or Pachaka, 100 Pachakas by an Hurango and 100 Hurangos by a Hunno.
There had 100 gates to Thebes, in Egypt, the third of 300 days of the oldest year.