Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus.

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”

(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

“To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

When the commanding officer had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, he addressed them in Aramaic,