"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them. But keep on storing up your riches in heaven where moths and rust do not make away with them and where thieves do not break in and steal them.

and said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house must be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers."

At that time Jesus said to the crowds: "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me, as though I were a robber? Day after day I used to sit teaching in the temple, and you never laid hands on me.

At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one at His right and one at His left.

Even the robbers who were crucified with Him made sport of Him in the same way.

And He continued teaching them and saying, "Does not the Scripture say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a cave for robbers."

And Jesus spoke and said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me, as though I were a robber?

They crucified two robbers along with Him, one at His right and one at His left.

Jesus answered: "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him till he was half dead, and then went off and left him.

Which one of these three do you think proved himself a real neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

and He said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers."

Then Jesus said to the high priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come to take Him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a robber?

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

All who came as such before me are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep would not listen to them.

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and as the carrier of the purse for the Twelve he was in the habit of taking what was put into it.

I have served Him on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the heathen, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers at sea, dangers from false brothers,

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord is coming like a thief in the night.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise;

So remember what you have received and heard, and continue to obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know the hour when I come upon you.