Acts 17:9. And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other. Better, ‘of Jason and of the rest,' ‘the rest' including those other believers who had been arrested at the time of the tumult. The ‘security' was most probably a sum of money deposited by Jason, who appears to have been a person of substance, as were very likely some of the others; for these converts among the early Christians in these great Grecian cities were by no means all drawn from the poorer classes. The purpose of this security was to assure the magistrates that there should be nothing done by these eastern strangers contrary to the decrees of Cæsar.

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