How can anyone get into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man? After that he can plunder his house.

and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a robbers' cave."

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.