2 Maccabees 4:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ In addition, he committed himself to a payment of a further one hundred and fifty talents if he was given the authority to establish a gymnasium and a youth club to be affiliated with it, and to enroll the people of Jerusalem as Antiochians.

¹⁰ When the king gave his assent and Jason succeeded to the office, he immediately imposed the Greek way of life on his fellow Jews. ¹¹ He set aside the royal concessions that had been granted to the Jews through the efforts of John—the father of that Eupolemus who later was sent on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Romans—and, abolishing the institutions founded on the law, he introduced customs that ran contrary to it.^[a]