Robbers

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right and the other on His left.

In the same way, even the robbers who were crucified with Him berated Him.

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.

Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.