Adjective hetoimos (ready) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

22: 4Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready (hetoimos); come to the wedding banquet.'
22: 8Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready (hetoimos), but those invited were not worthy.
24: 44Therefore you also must be ready (hetoimos), for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
25: 10And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready (hetoimos) went with him into the wedding banquet; and the door was shut.

Mark

14: 15He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready (hetoimos). Make preparations for us there."

Luke

12: 40You also must be ready (hetoimos), for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour."
14: 17At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for everything is ready (hetoimos) now.'
22: 33And he said to him, "Lord, I am ready (hetoimos) to go with you to prison and to death!"

John

7: 6Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready (hetoimos).

Acts

23: 15Now then, you and the council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you, on the pretext that you want to make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready (hetoimos) to do away with him before he arrives."
23: 21But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. They are ready (hetoimos) now and are waiting for your consent."