Marketplaces. Matthew 20:3; Mark 12:38; Luke 7:35; Acts 16:19. (any open place of public resort in cities or towns where public trials and assemblies were held and goods were exposed for sale. "The market-places or bazaars of the East were, and are at this day, the constant resort of unoccupied people, the idle, the news-mongers." - Hackett s Ill. S.S. - Editor).