lest having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping.
And having returned, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were weighed down, and they knew not what they should reply to him.
But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, Do thou sleep? Could thou not watch one hour?
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
And after rising up from his prayer, having come to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow.
I was asleep, but my heart awoke. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
