Pontus
Pontus was a region in Asia Minor along the Black Sea coast, home to Jewish inhabitants and early Christian converts.
The name Pontus means “the sea”
PlaceNew Testament2 books3 verses
Summary
Location
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 40.680° N, 37.830° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
Mentions
- Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
- There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
- Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen