“If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.”
If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. The law of entrusted property begins: when you give something to a neighbor for safekeeping, the neighbor has assumed responsibility for it. If it is stolen, the thief must pay double — but the neighbor who was the custodian is not personally liable if he is innocent of the theft. Luke 12:48 says from everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. The principle of heightened responsibility for what has been entrusted runs through the New Testament in the stewardship parables and connects to the custodial responsibility of Exodus 22:7.
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