When he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.”
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.
When they came to the synagogue leader’s house, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.
But Paul went down and bending over him took him in his arms and said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.