Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a den of robbers!"

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

But no one is able to enter a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"

Whenever you enter a house, first say, 'May peace be on this house!'

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of robbers!"