For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said,
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight!’”

Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

Then he *said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.’”

And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there.”

It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.

But he said to Him, “Lord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death!”

You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,

and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’