'Sleeping' in the Bible
They got up early [the next day]; and at dawn Samuel called Saul [who was sleeping] on the roof, saying, “Get up, so that I may send you on your way.” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went outside.
So David and Abishai went to the army during the night, and there was Saul lying asleep inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground by his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.
“All the kings of the nations, all of them lie [dead] in glorious array,Each one in his own sepulcher.
An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you. Look, it has come!
And suddenly a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
They brought to Him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a stretcher. Seeing their [active] faith [springing from confidence in Him], Jesus said to the paralytic, “Do not be afraid, son; your sins are forgiven [the penalty is paid, the guilt removed, and you are declared to be in right standing with God].”
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority and the power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your stretcher and go home.”
He said, “Go away; for the girl is not dead, but is sleeping.” And they laughed and jeered at Him.
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds [resembling wheat] among the wheat, and went away.
And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “So, you men could not stay awake and keep watch with Me for one hour?
Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Then He returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Listen, the hour [of My sacrifice] is at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners [whose way and nature is to oppose God].
and said, “You say this, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him while we were sleeping.’
Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your mat and walk’?
And he got up and immediately picked up the mat and went out before them all, so that they all were astonished and they glorified and praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
and he goes to bed at night and gets up every day, and [in the meantime] the seed sprouts and grows; how [it does this], he does not know.
When He had gone in, He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is sleeping.”
and ran throughout that surrounding countryside and began to carry around on their mats those who were sick, to any place where they heard He was.
And He came back and found them sleeping, and He said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Were you unable to keep watch for one hour?
And again He came back and found them sleeping, because their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know how to answer Him.
He came back a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough [of that]! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Now they were all weeping loudly and mourning for her; but He said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead, but is sleeping.”
When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow,
He said this, and after that said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him.”
The disciples answered, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
to such an extent that they even carried their sick out into the streets and put them on cots and sleeping pads, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them [with healing power].
The very night before Herod was to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries were in front of the door guarding the prison.