He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now,

If the bugle does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle?

They are demon spirits that perform wonders, and they go out to the kings all over the world to muster them for battle on the great Day of God Almighty.

and will go out to lead astray the heathen in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and to muster them for battle, in numbers like the sand of the seashore.

In appearance the locusts were like war-horses armed for battle; on their heads were what appeared to be crowns like gold; their faces were like human faces;

their breasts were like iron breast-plates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of a great number of chariots and horses rushing into battle.

It was he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, when he said, "Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready! Make his paths straight!' "

and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

Then he said to his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited have proved unworthy of it.

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

But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready, Make his paths straight,' "

He told his disciples to have a boat always ready for his use, to prevent his being crushed by the crowd.

And he will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make your preparations for us there."

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!"

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am.

He got very hungry, and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance,

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, and they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, and are only waiting to get your promise."

Then he called in two of his officers and said to them, "Get two hundred men ready to march to Caesarea, with seventy mounted men and two hundred spear-men, by nine o'clock tonight."