Bible Verses About Sleep: A symbol of death

so a person lies down and doesn't arise until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won't be roused from its sleep.

he said, "Everybody out! The girl isn't dead, she's only sleeping!" And they jeered at him.

On entering, he said to them, "Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead, she's just asleep!"

All the people were wailing and mourning for her; but he said, "Don't weep; she hasn't died, she's sleeping."

Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, “Our friend El‘azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up.”

The talmidim said to him, “Lord, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better.”

do who have nothing to hope for. For since we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, we also believe that in the same way God, through Yeshua, will take with him those who have died.