How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.

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.

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a hideout for bandits!"

But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.