10 Bible Verses about Marketplaces

And salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

But when her owners saw, that the hope of their gain was gone, laying hold of Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the market-place to the magistrates,

He therefore discoursed in the synagogue to the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market-place daily to those whom he met with.

And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place.

And going into the temple, he drove out them that sold and them that bought therein. Saying to them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people, sought to destroy him,read more.
And found not what they might do; for all the people hung upon him to hear him.

And he said to them in his teaching, Beware of the Scribes, who love to go in long sobes,

But whereto shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets,

But let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of curling the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel, But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.