'Expecting' in the Bible

So the man watched them closely, expecting to get something from them.

The next day, they arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called his relatives and close friends together.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I'm sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting!"

When his accusers stood up, they didn't accuse him of any of the crimes I was expecting.

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.