'Watching' in the Bible

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

The scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely, to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against Him.

And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

watching him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants.

“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time the thief was coming, he [would have been awake and alert, and] would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

One Sabbath, when He went to eat at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching Him closely.

"Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, "Come at once and have something to eat'?

So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.

The people stood watching, and even the leaders kept scoffing: “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One!”

But all who knew Him, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.