John 11:11

Lazarus Dies

¹⁰ But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.” ¹¹ He said this, and after that said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him.” ¹² The disciples answered, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

Fallen Asleep

John

Lazarus

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake (resurrect), these to everlasting life, but some to disgrace and everlasting contempt (abhorrence).

Acts 7:60

Then falling on his knees [in worship], he cried out loudly, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them [do not charge them]!” When he had said this, he fell asleep [in death].

Mark 5:39

When He had gone in, He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is sleeping.”

John 11:13

However, Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was referring to natural sleep.

Exodus 33:11

And so the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his attendant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

2 Chronicles 20:7

O our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Your friend Abraham?

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The offspring of Abraham My friend,

Matthew 9:24

He said, “Go away; for the girl is not dead, but is sleeping.” And they laughed and jeered at Him.

Matthew 27:52

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (God’s people) who had fallen asleep [in death] were raised [to life];

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens to him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this pleasure and joy of mine is now complete.

John 5:25-29

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, a time is coming and is [here] now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

John 11:3

So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, he [our brother and Your friend] whom You love is sick.”

John 11:43-44

When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

John 15:13-15

No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.

1 Corinthians 15:18

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Be sober-minded [be sensible, wake up from your spiritual stupor] as you ought, and stop sinning; for some [of you] have no knowledge of God [you are disgracefully ignorant of Him, and ignore His truths]. I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 15:51

Listen very carefully, I tell you a mystery [a secret truth decreed by God and previously hidden, but now revealed]; we will not all sleep [in death], but we will all be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed],

Ephesians 5:14

For this reason He says,

“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine [as dawn] upon you and give you light.”

1 Thessalonians 4:14-15

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again [as in fact He did], even so God [in this same way—by raising them from the dead] will bring with Him those [believers] who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died [willingly] for us, so that whether we are awake (alive) or asleep (dead) [at Christ’s appearing], we will live together with Him [sharing eternal life].

James 2:23

And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and this [faith] was credited to him [by God] as righteousness and as conformity to His will,” and he was called the friend of God.