Quotes about Marketplaces

Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:

the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.

In His teaching Jesus also said, “Watch out for the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, to receive greetings in the marketplaces,