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<p> <strong> JASON </strong> . This Greek name was adopted by many [[Jews]] whose [[Hebrew]] designation was Joshua (Jesus). <strong> 1. </strong> The son of [[Eleazar]] deputed to make a treaty with the Romans, and father of [[Antipater]] who was later sent on a similar errand, unless two different persons are meant ( 1Ma 8:17; 1Ma 12:16; 1Ma 14:22 ). <strong> 2. </strong> [[Jason]] of Cyrene, an author, of whose history 2 Mac. (see 2Ma 2:23; 2Ma 2:26 ) is an epitome (written after b.c. 160). <strong> 3. </strong> Joshua the high priest, who ousted his brother [[Onias]] iii. from the office in b.c. 174 ( 2Ma 4:7 ff.), but was himself driven out three years later, and died among the Lacedæmonians at [[Sparta]] ( 2Ma 5:9 f.). <strong> 4. </strong> In Acts 17:6 ff. a Jason was St. Paul’s host at Thessalonica, from whom the politarchs took bail for his good behaviour, thus (as it seems) preventing St. Paul’s return to [[Macedonia]] for a long time (see art. Paul the Apostle, § 8). The Jason who sends greetings from [[Corinth]] in Romans 16:21 , a ‘kinsman’ of St. Paul ( <em> i.e. </em> a Jew), is probably the same man. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </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>

<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>

<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>

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>

<p> The host of Paul and Silas at Thessalonica, whose house was attacked by the Jews, and himself arrested. Acts 17:5-9 . Perhaps the same as the one at Rome described as a kinsman of Paul. Romans 16:21 . </p>

<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>