The Nazarene: Narrow Gate: 1

EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE HIM KING.You know the miracles. You know the sermons. You know where the road ends.You have never watched him build the twelve.The Jordan runs brown to a wild man's knees. At thirty, Yeshua enters the river wearing his mother's cloak and comes out looking for twelve ordinary men who can carry a kingdom without turning it into a throne.Fishermen. A tax collector. A zealot with no knife on his belt. A Judean who keeps the purse and needs the count to come out even.He repairs sandals, sets a boy's ankle, mends a torn net, and feeds five thousand on a hillside. Each time the road tries to name him king, he hands them bread and walks the other way.His mother waits on a porch. Ten women choose their own roads. A blind beggar sees the council before the council sees him.This is the novel of the crowded years. Lakeshores and shut synagogues. A storm with an empty oar. A man who could have been king teaching twelve slow learners how to refuse a crown.Narrow Gate is Book Three of The Nazarene Saga.