Mark 5:38-39
5:38 They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where
he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.
5:39 When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”
John 11:4
11:4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death,
but to God’s glory,
so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
John 11:11-13
11:11 After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
11:12 Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)