And Joseph having awaked from sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord commanded him:

Then comes he to his disciples, and says to them, Sleep for the remaining time, and take rest: behold, the hour has drawn near, and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.

And the tombs were opened: and many bodies of the holy ones, having been set to sleep, were raised,

And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not.

And he comes the third time, and says to them, Sleep the remaining time, and take rest: it is sufficient, the hour has come; behold, the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.

And Peter and they with him were heavy with sleep: and having waked, they saw his glory, and two men standing with him.

And he said to them, Why sleep ye? having risen, pray that ye might not enter into temptation.

These things said he: and after this he says to them, Lazarus our friend has been set to sleep; but I go, that I might waken him.

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he has been set to sleep, he shall be saved.

And Jesus spake of his death: but these supposed that he speaks of the repose of sleep.

And having set the knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest thou not set this sin to them. And having said this he was set to sleep.

For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:

And a certain young man by name Eutychus, sitting in the window, borne down by deep sleep, Paul conversing more and more, fell down below from the third story, and was taken up dead.

And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed.

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him.

For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.

And saying, Where is the solemn promise of his presence? for from the time the fathers were set to sleep, so continue all things from the beginning of creation.