Jason

Jason Scripture - Acts 17:5

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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Jason Scripture - Acts 17:6

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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Jason Scripture - Acts 17:7

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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Jason in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Jason in Naves Topical Bible

-A Christian at Thessalonica Ac 17:5,6,7,9 -Probably Paul's kinsman, mentioned in Ro 16:21...

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Jason in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Jason in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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