10 Bible Verses about Marketplaces

and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called by men 'Rabbi.'

But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, laying hold on Paul and Silas, dragged them into the market-place before the rulers;

So, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met him.

"And, going forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

And, having entered into the temple, He began to cast out those who sold; saying to them, "It has been written, 'And My house shall be a house of prayer;' but ye made it a den of robbers." And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the high priests and the scribes and the chief men of the people were seeking to destroy Him;read more.
and they were not finding anything they could do; for the people were all hanging upon Him, listening.

And in His teaching He said, "Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in long robes and have salutations in the marketplaces,

"But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who, calling to the others,

And, in doing what is noble, let us not grow weary; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

whose adorning, let it not be the outward one of braiding of hair and of wearing of golden ornaments, or of putting on apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, who say, 'We piped to you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.'