2 Maccabees 4:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ promising the king at an interview^[a] three hundred sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents. ⁹ In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it, and to enroll the people of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch. ¹⁰ When the king assented and Jason^[b] came to office, he at once shifted his compatriots over to the Greek way of life.