'Asleep' in the Bible

Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."