'Preparation' in the Bible

"Again he sent other servants with a message to those who were invited. "'My breakfast is now ready," he said, 'my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and every preparation is made: come to the wedding.'

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

Then he will himself show you a large room upstairs, ready furnished: there make preparation for us."

And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

But Martha was distracted with much preparation, so she approached [and] said, "Lord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me alone to make preparations? Then tell her that she should help me!"

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

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.

Now before faith came about, we were held in custody and confined under the Law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.

And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption.

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

The Lord will deliver me from every cruel attack and will keep me safe in preparation for His heavenly Kingdom. To Him be the glory until the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

But the present heavens and the present earth are, by the command of the same God, kept stored up, reserved for fire in preparation for a day of judgement and of destruction for the ungodly.

And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day.