acts 17 jason

[Ezra]

my mother n law sent me on this journey what i gather of him the house of Jason is where paul and them stayed ..what i find of the person Jason possible relative of paul .tradition says one of the 70 disciples Luke 10:1 is there any back ground info on jason and paul has per relatives ?

 

[Helen]

my mother n law sent me on this journey what i gather of him the house of Jason is where paul and them stayed ..what i find of the person Jason possible relative of paul .tradition says one of the 70 disciples Luke 10:1 is there any back ground info on jason and paul has per relatives ?

This looks interesting ..I'll be watching here... :)
Maybe @101G or @CoreIssue would know more...hope so..I love these kind of interesting things..

 

[Ezra]

i must confess when asked about the 70 i said not that i know of sure enough Luke 10:1 only place 70 mentioned i dont have any background sources to use..

 

[CoreIssue]

This looks interesting ..I'll be watching here... :)
Maybe @101G or @CoreIssue would know more...hope so..I love these kind of interesting things..

The only thing I can add is that 12 were not really enough to spread the word and they were all called disciples of Christ.

In many ways this parallels the Old Testament schools of prophets that were composed of 70.

 

[Enoch111]

my mother n law sent me on this journey what i gather of him the house of Jason is where paul and them stayed ..what i find of the person Jason possible relative of paul .tradition says one of the 70 disciples Luke 10:1 is there any back ground info on jason and paul has per relatives ?

It is not likely that Jason was one of the 70 disciples. According to Acts 17, Jason was a resident of Thessalonica. He may or may not have been a relative of Paul, but he had allowed Paul and Silas to stay at his house while they visited Thessalonica.

This brought a great deal of trouble upon Jason because of the unbelieving Jews in that city. Paul and Silas may have been away from his house, but Jason and some other Christians were dragged out of his house and brought to the magistrates. These demanded *security* from Jason and another person in order to release him and his companions. As a result Paul and Silas had to leave the city immediately, from where they traveled to Berea.

For an in depth study of the life and epistles of Paul read the book by Coneybeare and Howson. It discusses this incident and indicates that according to tradition Jason ("perhaps some Hellenistic Jew") may have become the bishop of Tarsus.
The life and epistles of St. Paul : Conybeare, William John, 1815-1857 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[101G]

This looks interesting ..I'll be watching here... :)
Maybe @101G or @CoreIssue would know more...hope so..I love these kind of interesting things..

GINOLJC, to all.

first, well thank U BG for putting me in the mix...... (smile)... lol.

Addressing the OP and BG only, I don't have anything on this Jason beside what is recorded in (Acts 17:5-9), and if this is the same Jason in Romans 16:21 "Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you". if this is the same Jason of Thessalonica, then this Jason is what we call today a bishop, or, if the flow of addressing continues he might be one of Paul's kinsman. for we know that Timothy was not Paul's Natural kinsman, but his son in the gospel. so from the flow of addressing in Romans 16, he's either a bishop, or a kinsman of Paul, (we'll go with a person in the ministry, see below). either way, this Jason in Roman 16, and Acts 17 was a Christian follower.

in Romans, Jason is describe as a "Workfellow", meaning he's in the ministry, VS a "yokefellow" in the ministry. the reason why we say this is because he is not mention in the bible as a kinsman of Paul, neither Lucius, who is addressed in Roman 16, but was in association with Paul in Antioch in the Ministry. he was among the prophets and teachers, from there, and this city was where Paul and Silas launched their missionary Jornery from. so in the flow of addressing in Roman 16, Timothy, and Lucius was in the ministry with Paul, so we conclude, "Jason", was to. here is the reason for the conclusion to this. in Romans Paul said Timotheus my workfellow, no "s" at the end. so each was a workfellow. as was Sosipater, mention in Romans 16, who accompanied Paul into asia, (Acts 20:4). so all was a "workfellow of Paul.
Workfellow is the Greek word,
G4904 συνεργός sunergos (sïn-er-ğos') adj.
a co-laborer, i.e. coadjutor.
[from a presumed compound of G4862 and the base of G2041]
KJV: companion in labour, (fellow-)helper(-labourer, -worker), labourer together with, workfellow

looking at our definition, coadjutor. if anyone is catholic they know what that means, a bishop who assist another bishop.

now as for as "Jason" being numbered among the 70, I put no stock in what church traditions according to men, as to what they say. so no comment on the 70.

Hoped this helped............... BG...

 

[Helen]

GINOLJC, to all.

first, well thank U BG for putting me in the mix...... (smile)... lol.

Addressing the OP and BG only, I don't have anything on this Jason beside what is recorded in (Acts 17:5-9), and if this is the same Jason in Romans 16:21 "Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you". if this is the same Jason of Thessalonica, then this Jason is what we call today a bishop, or, if the flow of addressing continues he might be one of Paul's kinsman. for we know that Timothy was not Paul's Natural kinsman, but his son in the gospel. so from the flow of addressing in Romans 16, he's either a bishop, or a kinsman of Paul, (we'll go with a person in the ministry, see below). either way, this Jason in Roman 16, and Acts 17 was a Christian follower.

in Romans, Jason is describe as a "Workfellow", meaning he's in the ministry, VS a "yokefellow" in the ministry. the reason why we say this is because he is not mention in the bible as a kinsman of Paul, neither Lucius, who is addressed in Roman 16, but was in association with Paul in Antioch in the Ministry. he was among the prophets and teachers, from there, and this city was where Paul and Silas launched their missionary Jornery from. so in the flow of addressing in Roman 16, Timothy, and Lucius was in the ministry with Paul, so we conclude, "Jason", was to. here is the reason for the conclusion to this. in Romans Paul said Timotheus my workfellow, no "s" at the end. so each was a workfellow. as was Sosipater, mention in Romans 16, who accompanied Paul into asia, (Acts 20:4). so all was a "workfellow of Paul.
Workfellow is the Greek word,
G4904 συνεργός sunergos (sïn-er-ğos') adj.
a co-laborer, i.e. coadjutor.
[from a presumed compound of G4862 and the base of G2041]
KJV: companion in labour, (fellow-)helper(-labourer, -worker), labourer together with, workfellow

looking at our definition, coadjutor. if anyone is catholic they know what that means, a bishop who assist another bishop.

now as for as "Jason" being numbered among the 70, I put no stock in what church traditions according to men, as to what they say. so no comment on the 70.

Hoped this helped............... BG...

Excellent, thank you. Interesting...
Very kind of you to post that. :)

 

[Ezra]

now as for as "Jason" being numbered among the 70, I put no stock in what church traditions according to men, as to what they say. so no comment on the 70.

i felt same way that info came from Wikipedia i will say i did run onto info the catholic held him high in office ..i am not catholic so i didnt bother

 

[Ezra]

here is the kicker . my mother n law was asking me about Jason it was in her Sunday school lesson... they asked several including the preacher they had never heard of Jason he had to google it. of course the book of acts is one of my favorite books

 

[Ezra]

Hagiography[edit]
The literary source (hagiographic legend) of the life of Jason and Sosipater was newly edited and translated by B. Kindt as appendix to "La version longue du récit légendaire de l'évangelisation de Corfou par les saints Jason and Sosipatre," Analecta Bollandiana 116 (1998) 259–295.

Born in Tarsus, he was appointed Bishop of Tarsus by the Apostle Paul. With the apostle Sosipater he traveled to the island of Corfu, where they built a church in honor of the Apostle Stephen the Protomartyr and converted many pagans to the Christian faith. Seeing this, the king of Corfu threw them into prison where they converted seven other prisoners to the Christian faith: Saturninus, Jakischolus, Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius and Mammius. The king had those seven put to death for their faith in boiling pitch.

The king's daughter, the virgin Cercyra, having watched these holy apostles being tortured and turned to the Christian faith, distributed all her jewels to the poor. The king became angry and put her in prison, yet she would not deny Christ. So he had the prison burned, but she remained unharmed. Many people were baptized upon seeing this miracle. He then had her killed with arrows while tied to a tree.

Many believers fled to a nearby island to get away from the enraged king, but as he chased them, his boat sank. The new king embraced the Christian faith and in baptism received the name Sebastian. From then on Sosipater and Jason freely preached the Gospel and built up the Church in Corfu until a very old age, when they gave up their souls to God.[2] ( i have no way of knowing this is true )

Acts 17 Pulpit Commentary (source}
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.
Verse 5. - Jews for Jews which believed not, A.V. and T.R.; being moved for moved, A.V.; jealousy for envy, A.V. (see Acts 13:45, note); vile fellows of the rabble for lewd fellows of the baser sort, A.V.; gathering a crowd, set for gathered a company and set, A.V.; the city for all the city, A.V.; assaulting... they for assaulted... and, A.V.; forthfor out, A.V. The house of Jason; where it appears from ver. 7, as well as from this verse, Paul and Silas were lodging. If, as is very probable, the Jason here mentioned is the same person as the Jason of Romans 16:21, it would seem that he joined the apostle, either at this time or on his visit to Macedonia mentioned in Acts 20:3, and went with him to Corinth, where the Epistle to the Romans was written. He was a relation, συγγενής, of St. Paul's, and doubtless a Jew. Jason was a Romanized form of the name Jesus, or Joshua, as we see in the case of the high priest, the brother of Chins (Josephus, ' Ant. Jud.,' 12. 5:1). It was borne also by Jason of Cyrene, the Jewish historian (2 Macc. 2:23), and by another mentioned in 1 Macc. 7. 1:17, etc. St. Luke seems to introduce Jason as a well-known person.

 

[farouk]

Hagiography[edit]
The literary source (hagiographic legend) of the life of Jason and Sosipater was newly edited and translated by B. Kindt as appendix to "La version longue du récit légendaire de l'évangelisation de Corfou par les saints Jason and Sosipatre," Analecta Bollandiana 116 (1998) 259–295.

Born in Tarsus, he was appointed Bishop of Tarsus by the Apostle Paul. With the apostle Sosipater he traveled to the island of Corfu, where they built a church in honor of the Apostle Stephen the Protomartyr and converted many pagans to the Christian faith. Seeing this, the king of Corfu threw them into prison where they converted seven other prisoners to the Christian faith: Saturninus, Jakischolus, Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius and Mammius. The king had those seven put to death for their faith in boiling pitch.

The king's daughter, the virgin Cercyra, having watched these holy apostles being tortured and turned to the Christian faith, distributed all her jewels to the poor. The king became angry and put her in prison, yet she would not deny Christ. So he had the prison burned, but she remained unharmed. Many people were baptized upon seeing this miracle. He then had her killed with arrows while tied to a tree.

Many believers fled to a nearby island to get away from the enraged king, but as he chased them, his boat sank. The new king embraced the Christian faith and in baptism received the name Sebastian. From then on Sosipater and Jason freely preached the Gospel and built up the Church in Corfu until a very old age, when they gave up their souls to God.[2] ( i have no way of knowing this is true )

I'm not sure that all of this is actually in the New Testament, is it?

 

[Ezra]

I'm not sure that all of this is actually in the New Testament, is it?

did you read my disclaimer ?/???? ( ( i have no way of knowing this is true ) } this was the source translated by B. Kindt as appendix to "La version longue du récit légendaire de l'évangelisation de Corfou par les saints Jason and Sosipatre," Analecta Bollandiana 116 (1998) 259–295. given by Wikipedia there is no personal info as per relationship listed about jason or paul . i do have a document posted that was posted. i am going to read through soon as i get time if i post something i will say if its Bible or not