'Watching' in the Bible

"So keep on watching, because you don't know on what day your Lord is coming.

So keep on watching, because you don't know the day or the hour."

Now many women were also there, watching from a distance. They had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had ministered to him.

So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.

Now there were women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of young James and Joseph, and Salome.

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

The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus closely to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in order to find a way of accusing him of doing something wrong.

How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! I tell all of you with certainty, he himself will put on an apron, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.

One Sabbath, Jesus went to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal. The guests were watching Jesus 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'?

But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.

After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

but their plot became known to him. They were even watching the gates day and night to murder him,

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

Continue to follow and be submissive to your leaders, since they are watching over your souls as those who will have to give a word of explanation. By doing this, you will be letting them carry out their duties joyfully, and not with grief, for that would be harmful for you.

Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.