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There sprang from these a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome. He became king in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
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and that its temple was very rich, containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons left there by the first king of the Greeks, Alexander, son of Philip, king of Macedon.
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When the Greeks planned to come and destroy them,
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the Romans discovered it, and sent against the Greeks a single general who made war on them. Many were wounded and fell, and the Romans took their wives and children captive. They plundered them, took possession of their land, tore down their strongholds and reduced them to slavery even to this day.
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He did this to lift the yoke from Israel, for it was obvious that the kingdom of the Greeks was subjecting them to slavery.
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When Jason received the king’s approval and came into office, he immediately initiated his compatriots into the Greek way of life.
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With perverse delight he established a gymnasium at the very foot of the citadel, where he induced the noblest young men to wear the Greek hat.
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What their ancestors had regarded as honors they despised; what the Greeks esteemed as glory they prized highly.
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When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews of the city, together with the Greeks who detested the crime, went to see him about the murder of Onias.
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Following upon a vote of the citizens of Ptolemais, a decree was issued ordering the neighboring Greek cities to adopt the same measures, obliging the Jews to partake of the sacrifices
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and putting to death those who would not consent to adopt the customs of the Greeks. It was obvious, therefore, that disaster had come upon them.
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mustered about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and marched against the Jews. His plan was to make their city a Greek settlement;
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We have heard that the Jews do not agree with our father’s change to Greek customs but prefer their own way of life. They are petitioning us to let them retain their own customs.
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and that with him was Lysias, his guardian, who was in charge of the government. They led a Greek army of one hundred and ten thousand foot soldiers, fifty-three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.
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The he-goat is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn on its forehead is the first king.
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You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, taking them far from their own country!
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The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
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So the Jews said to one another, “Where is he going that we will not find him? Surely he is not going to the dispersion among the Greeks to teach the Greeks, is he?
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Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast.
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Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
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There were some Cypriots and Cyrenians among them, however, who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the Lord Jesus.
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Chapter 14
Paul and Barnabas at Iconium. In Iconium they entered the Jewish synagogue together and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks came to believe,
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Chapter 16
Paul in Lycaonia: Timothy. He reached [also] Derbe and Lystra where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.
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and Paul wanted him to come along with him. On account of the Jews of that region, Paul had him circumcised, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so, too, a great number of Greeks who were worshipers, and not a few of the prominent women.
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Many of them became believers, as did not a few of the influential Greek women and men.
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Every sabbath, he entered into discussions in the synagogue, attempting to convince both Jews and Greeks.
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This continued for two years with the result that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, Jews and Greeks alike.
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When this became known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived in Ephesus, fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in great esteem.
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I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
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shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us. This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place, and what is more, he has even brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this sacred place.”
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Just as Paul was about to be taken into the compound, he said to the cohort commander, “May I say something to you?” He replied, “Do you speak Greek?
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To Greeks and non-Greeks alike, to the wise and the ignorant, I am under obligation;
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek.
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Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.
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But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew first and then Greek.
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Well, then, are we better off? Not entirely, for we have already brought the charge against Jews and Greeks alike that they are all under the domination of sin,
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For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, enriching all who call upon him.
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For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
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but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,
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For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
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Moreover, not even Titus, who was with me, although he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised,
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.
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They had as their king the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon.