After that, the Governor's soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government House, and gathered the whole garrison round him.

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

let not him that is on the house-top come down to take his goods out of his house;

But know this, That if the master of the house had known at what watch the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have permitted his house to be broken open.

It is enough for the disciple, that he become as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his house-hold?

Then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,' and when it comes it finds the house vacant, clean, and all in order.

And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it;

A good person brings good things out of a good treasure house, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure house.

and if the house is worthy, your blessing shall come upon it; but if the house is not worthy, your blessing shall return to you.