Bible Location
Meaning: the sea · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Pontus was the Black Sea province of Asia Minor associated with diaspora Jews and early Christians. It is important because Aquila came from there and Peter addressed believers scattered through it. First appears in Acts 2:9.1
AI summary: Pontus matters because it helps show how widely Jewish and Christian communities were spread across Asia Minor. It appears at Pentecost, in the story of Aquila, and in the address of 1 Peter. The cross references present Pontus as a northern provincial setting of diaspora life and early Christian identity.1
A province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of Trebizond. In the time of the apostles it was a Roman province. Strangers from this province were at Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:9), and to “strangers scattered throughout Pontus,” among others, Peter addresses his first epistle (1 Pet. 1:1). It was evidently the resort of many Jews of the Dispersion. Aquila was a native of Pontus (Acts 18:2). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.