"Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

"It is written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves."

Then Jesus said to the crowds. "Are you come out as against a robber, with swords and staves to arrest me? Day after day, I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not apprehend me.

At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left.

In the same way the robbers also who were being crucified with him, dept reviling him.

"Is it not written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers."

But Jesus interposed, saying. "Are you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as if I were a robber?

Now with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand and one on his left.

"A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell among bandits who both stripped him and beat him, and went off leaving him half dead.

"Which then of these three seems to you to have behaved like a neighbor to the man who fell among bandits?"

saying, "It is written, ??he house of God shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

Then Jesus said to the corps of priests and captains of the temple and elders who had come out to arrest him. "Have ye come for me with swords and clubs to arrest me like a robber?

"In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;

"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse,

My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;

You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit.

Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.