'Courts' in the Bible
Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,
And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called "the Beautiful Gate" every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.
He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
"Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life."
When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- that is, the whole high council of the Israelites -- and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.
But someone came and reported to them, "Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!"
And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.
If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against someone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.
shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"
(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)
The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.
They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.