'Sleep' in the Bible
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Then cometh he to his 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 and grow up, 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.
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.