'Preparation' in the Bible

"Again he sent other servants with a message to those who were invited. "'My breakfast is now ready," he said, 'my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and every preparation is made: come to the wedding.'

On the next day, the day after the Preparation, the High Priests and the Pharisees came in a body to Pilate.

What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.

Then he will himself show you a large room upstairs, ready furnished: there make preparation for us."

Towards sunset, as it was the Preparation--that is, the day preceding the Sabbath--

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was near at hand.

The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!"

Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity)

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.

Before this faith came, we Jews were perpetual prisoners under the Law, living under restraints and limitations in preparation for the faith which was soon to be revealed.

And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption.

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

The Lord will deliver me from every cruel attack and will keep me safe in preparation for His heavenly Kingdom. To Him be the glory until the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

But the present heavens and the present earth are, by the command of the same God, kept stored up, reserved for fire in preparation for a day of judgement and of destruction for the ungodly.

And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day.