Market-places
Mt 20:3; Mr 12:38; Lu 7:35; Ac 16:19
(any open place of public resort in cities or towns where public trials and assemblies were held and goods were exposed for sale. "The market-places or bazaars of the East were, and are at this day, the constant resort of unoccupied people, the idle, the news-mongers." --Hackett s Ill. S.S. --ED.)
"And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;
In His teaching He was saying: "Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like respectful greetings in the market places,
"Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children."
But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,
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