Jason
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto
them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a
company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the
house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people....
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And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain
brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have
turned the world upside down are come hither also;...
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Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the
decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one]
Jesus....
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ja'-sun (Iason): A common name among the Hellenizing Jews
who used it for Jesus or Joshua, probably connecting it with
the Greek verb iashthai ("to heal").
(1) Son of Eleazar, sent (161 BC) by Judas Maccabeus with
other deputies to Rome "to make a league of amity and
confederacy" (1 Macc 8:17; Josephus, Ant, XII, x, 6), and
perhaps to be ident...
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-A Christian at Thessalonica
Ac 17:5,6,7,9
-Probably Paul's kinsman, mentioned in
Ro 16:21...
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(one who will heal), called the Thessalonian, entertained
Paul and Silas, and was in consequence attacked by the Jewish
mob. Ac 17:5,6,7,9 (A.D. 48.) He is probably the same as the
Jason mentioned in Ro 16:21 It is conjectured that Jason and
Secundus, Ac 20:4 were the same....
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he that will cure, the host of Paul and Silas in
Thessalonica.
The Jews assaulted his house in order to seize Paul,
but failing
to find him, they dragged Jason before the ruler of
the city
(Acts 17:5-9). He was apparently one of the kinsmen of
Paul
(Rom. 16:21), and accompanied him from Thessalonica to
Corinth....
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