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== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56284" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56284" /> == | ||
<p> (Ἰάσων) </p> <p> | <p> (Ἰάσων) </p> <p> Jason is a Greek name, often adopted by Jews of the Dispersion, sometimes as not unlike the names [[Joseph]] or Joshua. </p> <p> <b> 1 </b> . In Acts 17:5 ff., the host of St. Paul and Silas at Thessalonica, who was seized with other converts and dragged before the politarchs. These authorities bound over Jason and his friends in security that there should be no further disturbance and perhaps that St. Paul should leave the city and not return (see Ramsay, <i> St. Paul the [[Traveller]] and the [[Roman]] [[Citizen]] </i> , 1895, p. 230f.). </p> <p> <b> 2 </b> . In Romans 16:21, a person whose greetings St. Paul sends to his readers with greetings from Timothy, Lucius, and Sosipater, all of whom he describes as his ‘kinsmen,’ <i> i.e. </i> fellow-Jews or perhaps members of the same tribe. It is quite probable that <b> 1 </b> and <b> 2 </b> are the same man. </p> <p> T. B. Allworthy. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36011" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36011" /> == | ||
<p> Graecized from Joshua. The [[Thessalonian]] who received Paul and Silas (Acts 17:5-7; Acts 17:9), whom the mob therefore, after assaulting his house, dragged before the magistrates. | <p> Graecized from Joshua. The [[Thessalonian]] who received Paul and Silas (Acts 17:5-7; Acts 17:9), whom the mob therefore, after assaulting his house, dragged before the magistrates. Jason had to give security before he was let go. In Romans 16:21 Paul sends Jason's salutations from Corinth, calling him his "kinsman" or fellow tribesman, or fellow countryman, as the word is used Romans 9:3. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73201" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73201" /> == | ||
<p> Ja'son. (one who will heal). Jason, called the Thessalonian, entertained Paul and Silas, and was in consequence, attacked by the [[Jewish]] mob. Acts 17:5-7; Acts 17:9. (A.D. 48). He is probably the same as the | <p> Ja'son. (one who will heal). Jason, called the Thessalonian, entertained Paul and Silas, and was in consequence, attacked by the [[Jewish]] mob. Acts 17:5-7; Acts 17:9. (A.D. 48). He is probably the same as the Jason mentioned in Romans 16:21. It is conjectured that Jason and Secundus, Acts 20:4, were the same person. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_41497" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_41497" /> == | ||
Acts 17:5Acts 17:6-7Romans 16:21 <p> 2. A | Acts 17:5Acts 17:6-7Romans 16:21 <p> 2. A Jewish high priest during the final years of Seleucid control of Palestine. His Greek name reflects the [[Hellenistic]] influence that increasingly permeated Jewish life during the period before the Maccabean revolt. See Intertestamental History. </p> | ||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70283" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70283" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> Jason (jâ'son), one who will heal. A Thessalonian, and probably a relative of Paul, whom he entertained, and in consequence received rough treatment at the [[Hands]] of the unbelieving Jews. Acts 17:1-34; with Romans 16:21. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16407" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16407" /> == | ||
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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75184" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75184" /> == | ||
<p> A mythological Greek hero, son of Æson, king of Iolcos; brought up by the centaur Chiron, was supplanted on the throne by his half-brother Pelias; undertook the leadership of the Argonautic expedition, assisted by [[Medea]] in this enterprise; he took her to wife, but cast her off for Creusa, whom Medea to avenge herself killed, with her father and her two sons by Jason, she herself escaping to [[Athens]] in a chariot drawn by winged dragons; | <p> A mythological Greek hero, son of Æson, king of Iolcos; brought up by the centaur Chiron, was supplanted on the throne by his half-brother Pelias; undertook the leadership of the Argonautic expedition, assisted by [[Medea]] in this enterprise; he took her to wife, but cast her off for Creusa, whom Medea to avenge herself killed, with her father and her two sons by Jason, she herself escaping to [[Athens]] in a chariot drawn by winged dragons; Jason took refuge from her fury in the sanctuary of [[Poseidon]] near Corinth, where the timber of the ship Argo deposited there breaking up fell upon him and crushed him to death. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15950" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15950" /> == | ||
<p> Ja´son, a kinsman of St. Paul, and his host at Thessalonica, where the | <p> Ja´son, a kinsman of St. Paul, and his host at Thessalonica, where the Jews forced his house in order to seize the Apostle. Not finding the Apostle, they dragged Jason himself and some other converts before the magistrates, who released them with an admonition (A.D. 53). Jason appears to have accompanied the [[Apostle]] to Corinth . </p> | ||
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