Acts 17:5 - Exposition

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. ; forth for out, A.V. The house of Jason ; where it appears from Acts 17:7 , 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 Onias (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. 8:17, etc. St. Luke seems to introduce Jason as a well-known person.