'Preparation' in the Bible

The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.

Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.