"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions,

And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

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

Wherever he entered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched him were made well.

When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves. And there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pitchers and copper vessels.)

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.'

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities,