He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

"And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready,

as the book of the sermons of the prophet Isaiah says, "Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, Get the Lord's way ready! Make his paths straight.

You must be ready with your lamps burning,

You must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him."

The slave who knows his master's wishes, but does not get ready or act upon them, will be severely punished.

and when the dinner hour came, he sent around his slave, to say to those who were invited, 'Come! for it is now ready!'

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

instead of saying to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself, and wait on me while I eat and drink, and you can eat and drink afterward'?

Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you!"