Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Bible References
He saith
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Exodus 33:11
Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
2 Chronicles 20:7
Didn't you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?
Isaiah 41:8
"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
James 2:23
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
Sleepeth
John 11:13
Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
Deuteronomy 31:16
Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Matthew 9:24
he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.
Mark 5:39
When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
Acts 7:60
He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:18
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.