"Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

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

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.