'Public' in the Bible
‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.
Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem;
And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.
But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.”
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.
Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.
partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.