Pontus in Easton's Bible Dictionary
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).
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