'Robbers' in the Bible
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!"
The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
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!"
Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead.
Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"
saying to them, "It is written, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of robbers!"
All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,