If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?

Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet."'

Won't the master instead say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink'?

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

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