'Public' in the Bible

and like to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to be addressed by men as 'Rabbi.'

Moreover in the course of His teaching He said, "Be on your guard against the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes and to be bowed to in places of public resort,

They are like children sitting in the public square and calling out to one another, 'We have played the flute to you, and you have not danced: we have sung dirges, and you have not shown sorrow.'

Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

and laid hands upon the Apostles, and put them into the public jail.

But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them off to the magistrates in the public square.

But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."

for he powerfully and in public overcame the Jews in argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

A few of the public officials, too, who were friendly to him, sent repeated messages entreating him not to venture into the Theatre.

and that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, or from teaching you in public and in your homes,

This was partly through allowing yourselves to be made a public spectacle amid reproaches and persecutions, and partly through coming forward to share the sufferings of those who were thus treated.