Acts 17:7
Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
The verse belongs to the Thessalonian episode in which Paul reasoned from the Scriptures concerning the Messiah and showed that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Christ. Jason had received Paul and his companions into his house, specifically Paul and Silas. That house of Jason was the temporary home of the apostles in the city.
The charge was that Jason and all the believers, by proclaiming Jesus as another king and a rival ruler, were acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar and defying imperial law. Their teaching about the kingship of Jesus was thus presented as a threat to Roman authority and rule. The accusation was a cunningly devised falsehood and misrepresentation that twisted Paul's preaching and used it as a political pretext.
The false construction placed upon his teaching was that Paul taught Christ would return at his second coming, even in that generation, to reign on earth as king over all nations. The accusers were envious Jews who sought to throw reproach upon the apostles and converts, to discredit them, to gratify malice, to regain favor with the Roman authorities and appear as loyal citizens, and to shift onto the Christians the suspicion and restriction that had rested upon themselves after a recent insurrection. They excited a worthless mob with falsehoods to make a furious, beast-like assault on Jason's house, with instructions to seize Paul and Silas and drag them before the authorities as makers of tumult, raisers of insurrection, and men who had upset the world.
Paul and Silas could not be found because they had been hurried out of the city to Berea, so the mob seized Jason and his brother instead for harboring them. The charge was pressed before the city authorities and magistrates at Thessalonica so determinedly that they believed it and placed Jason under bonds to keep the peace while Paul and Silas were absent. The Jews regarded the apostles as disturbers of the churches, and in the same way dishonest, critical and sharp ministers who have rejected light regard those who bring precious truths from the Word of God, while other ministers have lived up to the best light they had on the Scriptures.