'Public' in the Bible
And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison.
[After he] had arrested {him}, he also put [him] in prison, handing [him] over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him {out for public trial} after the Passover.
So on an appointed day Herod, [after] putting on royal clothing and sitting down on the judgment seat, began to deliver a public address to them.
But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public without due process--men who are Roman citizens--[and] threw [us] into prison, and now they are wanting to release us secretly? Certainly not! Rather let them come themselves [and] bring us out!"
For he was vigorously refuting the Jews in public, demonstrating through the scriptures [that] the Christ was Jesus.
how I did not shrink from proclaiming to you anything that would be profitable, and [from] teaching you in public and from house [to house],
For we have found this man [to be] a public menace and one who causes riots among all the Jews throughout the Roman Empire and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
[When he] had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of [them] in public, triumphing over them by it.
Until I come, pay attention to the [public] reading, to exhortation, to teaching.