He came again and found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ¹ 

or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

Then ¹  he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

When ¹  he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted ²  from grief.

So ¹  he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!” ² 

he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep.” And they began making fun of him. ¹ 

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds ¹  among the wheat and went away.

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ¹  And they did not know what to tell him.

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He ¹  said to Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with me for one hour?

He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? ¹  Enough of that! ²  The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial, ¹  Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while ²  guards in front of the door were keeping watch ³  over the prison.

When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

Now they were all ¹  wailing and mourning ²  for her, but he said, “Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”

So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is approaching, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body ¹  while we were asleep.’

All their watchmen ¹  are blind, they are unaware. ²  All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, ³  lie down, and love to snooze.

And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat ¹  and walk.”

Then the disciples replied, ¹  “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”