2 Maccabees 4:7-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Jason’s Reforms

⁷ When Seleucus died and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high priesthood by corruption, ⁸ promising the king at an interview^[a] three hundred sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents. ⁹ In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it, and to enroll the people of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch. ¹⁰ When the king assented and Jason^[b] came to office, he at once shifted his compatriots over to the Greek way of life.