“Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.”
And Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar's decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus — The Jewish accusers shrewdly pivot to political language: the claim of 'another king' (basileus heteros, another king) translates theology into treason comprehensible to Roman magistrates. Luke captures how Jewish resistance reframes the gospel in imperial terms.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:7
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. Acts 17:4 The writer mentions only the sum and substance of the discoursing: he is not given to redundancy, and does not on every occasion report the sermons. But the Jews which believed not (the best texts omit which believed not), moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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