'Asleep' in the Bible

And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

He said, “Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him.

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Since the groom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?

And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.

and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

saying, 'Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him -- we being asleep;

he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

Otherwise, he may come suddenly and find you asleep.

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.

But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

Everyone was crying and mourning for her. But He said, “Stop crying, for she is not dead but asleep.”

When he got up from prayer, he went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Listen! I am telling you a mystery:We will not all fall asleep,but we will all be changed,

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

Therefore, let's not fall asleep like others do, but let's stay awake and be sober.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.