10 Bible Verses about Marketplaces

to be greeted with honor in public places, and to have men call them 'Teacher.'

But as the owners saw that the hope of their profit-making was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square, before the authorities,

So he kept up his discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the pagans who were worshiping there, and also day by day in the public square with any who chanced to be there.

He went out again about nine o'clock and found others standing around doing nothing.

Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things in it, and He said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers." So He was teaching daily in the temple, and the high priests and the scribes and the leading men of the people were trying to destroy Him,read more.
but they could not find, as hard as they tried, what to do with Him, for all the people continued to hang on His words.

And in His teaching He continued to say: "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, to be saluted with honor in public places,

"But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,

Let us stop getting tired of doing good, for at the proper time we shall reap if we do not give up.

Your adornments must be not of an external nature, with braids of hair or ornaments of gold, or changes of dress, but they must be of an internal nature, the character concealed in the heart, in the imperishable quality of a quiet and gentle spirit, which is of great value in the sight of God.

They are like little children sitting in the market-place and calling to their fellows in the game: "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not mourn.'