'Asleep' in the Bible

But suddenly there arose a great storm on the Lake, so that the waves threatened to engulf the boat; but He was asleep.

and He said, "Go out of the room; the little girl is not dead, but asleep." And they laughed at Him.

The bridegroom was a long time in coming, so that meanwhile they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!

He came and again found them asleep, for they were very tired.

the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep in death awoke.

telling them to say, "His disciples came during the night and stole his body while we were asleep."

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

But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. "Rabbi," they cried, "is it nothing to you that we are drowning?"

He goes in. "Why all this outcry and loud weeping?" He asks; "the child is asleep, not dead."

Beware lest He should arrive unexpectedly and find you asleep.

Then He came and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Had you not strength to keep awake a single hour?

When He returned He again found them asleep, for they were very tired; and they knew not how to answer Him.

During the passage He fell asleep, and there came down a squall of wind on the Lake, so that the boat began to fill and they were in deadly peril.

The people were all weeping aloud and beating their breasts for her; but He said, "Leave off wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

"Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover."

Then, rising on his knees, he cried aloud, "Lord, do not reckon this sin against them." And with these words 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 having been useful to his own generation in accordance with God's purpose, did fall asleep, was gathered to his forefathers, and did undergo decay.

Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep.

It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.

and, asking, "What has become of His promised Return? For from the time our forefathers fell asleep all things continue as they have been ever since the creation of the world."