Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

But know this, that if the owner of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers.'"