'Waiting' in the Bible

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.

These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.'

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request."