that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:

It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was beginning.

They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare it?”

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.”

Then he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Make preparations there.”

Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

So they went and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”

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’?

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

Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.

That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

“Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning;

But Jesus said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.