10 Bible Verses about Marketplaces
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And her lords having seen that the hope of their gain went out, taking Paul and Silas, they drew to the assembly to the rulers,
Therefore truly he discussed in the synagogue with Jews, and those worshipping, and in the assembly in every day with those being present.
And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place,
And having come into the temple, he began to cast out them selling and buying in it; Saying to them, It has been written, My house is the house of prayer: and ye have made it a den of robbers. And he was teaching in the day in the temple. And the chief priests and scribes and the first of the people sought to destroy him,read more.
And they found not what they might do: for all the people hearing hanged on him.
And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places,
To what shall I liken this generation I it is like little boys sitting in market-places, and calling to their companions,
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement; But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price.
They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not.