"Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But amass wealth for yourselves in Heaven, where neither the moth nor wear-and-tear destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

"It is written," He said, "'My House shall be called the House of Prayer', but you are making it a robbers' cave."

Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

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

Insults of the same kind were heaped on Him even by the robbers who were being crucified with Him.

And He remonstrated with them. "Is it not written," He said, "'My House shall be called The House of Prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it what it now is--a robbers' cave."

"Have you come out," said Jesus, "with swords and cudgels to arrest me, as if you had to fight with a robber?

And together with Jesus they crucified two robbers, one at His right hand and one at His left.

Jesus replied, "A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell among robbers, who after both stripping and beating him went away, leaving him half dead.

"Which of those three seems to you to have acted like a fellow man to him who fell among the robbers?"

"It is written," He said, "'And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave."

Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels?

"In most solemn truth I tell you that the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way, is a thief and a robber.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.

The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.

I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city, dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies in our midst;

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that daylight should surprise you like a thief;

Be mindful, therefore, of the lessons you have received and heard. Continually lay them to heart, and repent. If, however, you fail to rouse yourself and keep awake, I shall come upon you suddenly like a thief, and you will certainly not know the hour at which I shall come to judge you.