2 Maccabees 4:10-12

New Catholic Bible

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] 12} He quickly established a gymnasium^[b] at the very foot of the citadel itself, and he convinced the most noble of the young men to wear the Greek hat.