'Sleep' in the Bible
And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife;
Then cometh he to the disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.
And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough; the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.
These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.
And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, borne down with deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet longer, being borne down by his sleep he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.
And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.