'Waiting' in the Bible

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he noticed that the city was full of idols.

These brethren had gone on and were waiting for us in the Troad.

And continually, up till daybreak, Paul kept urging all on board to take some food. "This is the fourteenth day," he said, "that you have been anxiously waiting for the storm to cease, and have fasted, eating little or nothing.

They expected him soon to swell with inflammation or suddenly fall down dead; but, after waiting a long time and seeing no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.