'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, 'As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;

Then crucified with him are two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on the left,

with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

and he was teaching, saying to them, 'Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

And Jesus answering said to them, 'As against a robber ye came out, with swords and sticks, to take me!

And with him they crucify two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on his left,

and Jesus having taken up the word, said, 'A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving him half dead.

'Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

saying to them, 'It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'

And Jesus said to those having come upon him -- chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders -- 'As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?

'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

'Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

'When a man doth steal an ox or sheep, and hath slaughtered it or sold it, five of the herd he doth repay for the ox, and four of the flock for the sheep. 'If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him; read more. if the sun hath risen upon him, blood is for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft; if the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether ox, or ass, or sheep -- double he repayeth.

They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry, And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.