Then Joseph being awak'd out of sleep, did as the angel of the Lord directed, and took his wife home,

and at his return, he said to his disciples, is this a time to sleep and take your rest? the hour draws nigh, and the son of man is betrayed into the hands of the gentiles.

after that he came a third time, and said to them, sleep on now and take your rest. 'tis done, the time is come, and the son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

while Peter, and the others with him, were overwhelm'd with sleep: but when they wak'd, they observed his glory, and the two persons present with him,

then rising from prayer, he came to his disciples, and finding them asleep, oppress'd with grief, why do you sleep?

and he that was healed, did not know who it was: for Jesus had slip'd away, by favour of the crowd that was there.

then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he will recover;

though Jesus meant it of Lazarus's death: but they understood it of the natural rest in sleep.

and as Paul continued his discourse a great while, a young man, named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was seiz'd with a deep sleep, which quite o'er-came him; so that he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

hence it is, that many are weak and sickly among you, and no small number now sleep in their graves.

I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,

therefore let us not sleep away our time like others, but be vigilant and temperate.