Jason — Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

1. Jewish high priest (174–171 BC) who brought about the decline of the priesthood by Hellenizing Jerusalem, making her inhabitants “citizens of Antioch” (2 Macc 4:9ff.). He was deposed by his cousin Onias Menelaus, but when a false report told of the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, Jason attacked Jerusalem without mercy for his own people. Antiochus, returning from an aborted attack on Egypt, retook Jerusalem and Jason was forced to flee to Transjordan and thence from city to city. Second Maccabees reports that at his death, “[Jason] who had cast out many to lie unburied had no one to mourn for him; he had no funeral of any sort and no place in the tomb of his fathers” (5:10, rsv).

Show passage in OET: MA2 5:10

OET-RV MA2 5:10

10 He who’d thrown out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him. He didn’t have any funeral at all and no place in the tomb of his ancestors.

OET-LV MA2 5:10

10 and the/this/who multitude ⟦ἀτάφων⟧ ⟦ἐκρίψας⟧ unlamented to_be, and ⟦κηδείας⟧ and_not ⟦ἡστινοσοῦν⟧ neither ancestral grave to_share.

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2. Jewish Christian at Thessalonica who hosted Paul and Silas (Acts 17:1, 5-9 OET ACT 17:1 · OET ACT 17:5–9). He and others were called before the city officials on charges of harboring seditionists. He was released when he put up bail.

Show passage in OET: ACT 17:1; ACT 17:5–9

OET-RV ACT 17:1

17 After travelling through Amfipolis and Apollonia, Paulos and Silas went to Thessalonikai where there was a Jewish meeting hall.

OET-RV ACT 17:5

5 But some of the other Yehudim (Jews) were envious of them, and enlisted some of the troublemakers from the marketplaces to form a mob. They stirred up all the people, and looking for Paulos and Silas so they could bring them out, arrived at the house of a man named Yason.

OET-RV ACT 17:6

6 But when they realised that Paulos and Silas weren’t there, they dragged Yason and some other believers off to the city leaders, shouting, “Those two men who’ve gone around upsetting the whole world have now come here as well

OET-RV ACT 17:7

7 and Yason has welcomed them into his house. They rebel against Kaisar’s decrees and claim that Yeshua is a rival king.”

OET-RV ACT 17:8

8 They stirred up the crowd and the city leaders with these accusations,

OET-RV ACT 17:9

9 so the leaders collected a heavy fine from Yason and the others, and then released them.

OET-LV ACT 17:1

17 And having _travelled _through the Amfipolis and the Apollōnia, they _came to Thessalonikaʸ, where was a_synagogue of _the Youdaiōns.

OET-LV ACT 17:5

5 But the Youdaiōns, having _been _jealous and having _taken _aside some evil men of _the marketplaces, and having _formed _a _mob, they _were _distressing the city, and having _approached to _the house of _Yasōn, they _were _seeking them to _bring _forth to the public.

OET-LV ACT 17:6

6 And not having _found them, they _were _dragging Yasōn and some brothers before the city _council shouting, that The ones having _upset the inhabited _world, these are _coming here also,

OET-LV ACT 17:7

7 whom Yasōn has _welcomed, and these all are _doing in _front _of the decrees of _Kaisar, saying Yaʸsous another king to _be.

OET-LV ACT 17:8

8 And they _disturbed the crowd and the city _council hearing these things.

OET-LV ACT 17:9

9 And having _taken the much from the Yasōn and the rest, they _sent_ them _away.

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3. Christian at Corinth who, along with Paul, sent greetings to the church at Rome (Rom 16:21).