10 Bible Verses about Marketplaces

and to be greeted in the markets with respect, and to be called 'Rabbi' for everybody.

When her masters saw that there was no hope of further profit from her, they seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the public square to the authorities,

So he argued in the Synagogue with the Jews and with those who joined in their worship, as well as daily in the public Square with those who happened to be there.

On going out again, about nine o'clock, he saw some others standing in the market-place, doing nothing.

Jesus went into the Temple Courts and began to drive out those who were selling, Saying as he did so: "Scripture says--'My House shall be a House of Prayer'; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.'" Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leading men.read more.
Yet they could not see what to do, for the people all hung upon his words.

In the course of his teaching, Jesus said: "See that you are on your guard against the Teachers of the Law, who delight to walk about in long robes, and to be greeted in the streets with respect,

But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates--

Let us never tire of doing right, for at the proper season we shall reap our harvest, if we do not grow weary.

Yours should be, not the external adornment of the arrangement of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or the putting on of dresses, but the inner life with the imperishable beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit; for this is very precious in God's sight.

They are like some little children who are sitting in the market-place and calling out to one another--'We have played the flute for you, but you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not wept!'