and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

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.