and the stones did rent, and graves did open, and the bodies of many saints which slept, arose:
This said he. And after that he said unto them: our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go to wake him out of sleep.
And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice: Lord impute not this sin unto them, For they wote not what they do. And when he had thus spoken he fell asleep.
¶ For this cause many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
¶ Now is Christ risen from death, and is become the first fruits of them that slept.
Behold I shew a mystery unto you: we shall not all sleep: but we shall all be changed,
For if we believe that Iesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Iesus, will God bring again with him.
that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.