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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51933" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51933" /> == | ||
<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, | <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> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56284" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56284" /> == | ||
<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> | <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" /> == | ||
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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73201" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73201" /> == | ||
<p> '''Ja'son.''' ''( | <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 17:5 Acts 17:6-7 Romans 16:21 <p> 2. | Acts 17:5 Acts 17:6-7 Romans 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> [[Jason]] ('' | <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" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A kinsman and host of Paul, at Thessalonica. His person and goods were interposed to shield the apostle from the rabble, A. D. 52, Acts 17:5-10 . He seems also to have been with him at Corinth, five years afterwards, Romans 16:21 . </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66925" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66925" /> == | ||
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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75184" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75184" /> == | ||
<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> | ||
== 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 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 | <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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