He will go before Him in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the upright, to make ready for the Lord a people perfectly prepared."

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to make ready His ways,

as it is written in the sermon-book of the prophet Isaiah: "Here is a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord, make the paths straight for Him.

And it goes and finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

So you, too, must always be ready, for at an hour that you are not expecting, the Son of Man will come."

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

And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to the invited guests, 'Come, for it is now ready.'

but will not rather say to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself and wait on me until I eat and drink, and you yourself can eat and drink afterward'?

But Peter said to Him, "Lord, I am ready to go even to prison and to death with you!"