“Bandits” (Good News Translation, Phillips, New English Bible) is rendered robbers by most English translations. It is the same word used in 21.13; 26.55.
Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .