The Pentecost Pilgrims (c. 33-36 AD)

The First Century House Churches Saga (Book 1)

By: David Michael Curtis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

They witnessed the fire of Pentecost. Now they must carry its ember into the heart of a pagan empire.

In 33 AD, four families from Rome—led by Andronicus the statesman, Caius the scholar, Lucius the craftsman, and Rufus, the son of the man who carried Christ’s cross—travel to Jerusalem seeking truth. They arrive just in time to be swept up in the miraculous events of Pentecost. After hearing Peter's sermon and being born of water, their lives are irrevocably transformed.

They return to Rome as new men, tasked with planting a new faith in a hostile land. Rejected by the synagogues and struggling with the deep social divisions that defined the Empire, their fledgling house churches are put to the test.

When news of the first martyr, Stephen, arrives from Jerusalem, the reality of persecution strikes. Their faith, built on the glorious but fading memory of a single miracle, begins to crack. Fear and doubt spread through the flock, while the sons of the patriarchs are tempted by worldly violence and paralyzing terror.

To save their community, the four men realize memory is not enough. They must build a foundation of unshakeable evidence. They embark on a new, dangerous "Pilgrimage for Truth" back to Judea and Galilee to find the living eyewitnesses of Christ's ministry. Their quest: to interview Jairus, whose daughter was raised from the dead, and the Roman Centurion, whose servant was healed by a word.

The Pentecost Pilgrims is the first book in the 1st Century House Churches saga, a gripping work of historical fiction built exclusively upon the King James Version of the Bible. It is a story of the quest for the written Word, chronicling the birth of the church in Rome and the origins of the first Gospel accounts.