Drawing on his experience as a journalist, historian and, most importantly, as a sincere believer, Jim Bishop wrote this book (first published in 1957) with a strong personal mission: to gain a clearer picture of Jesus, the man, during the time that he chose to suffer as a man, and to understand better the strength of his relationship with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

Recommended and introduced by Joyce Huggett, who has used it as her Lent Book for the last 25 years: 'Throughout my Middle Eastern years, as now, Jim Bishop s authentic, accurate pen-pictures transport me back to a part of the world that throbs with the words and wonder of Jesus himself. It furnishes me with such a wealth of angles from which to behold and ponder the Lord on the most dramatic day in the history of the world that it will continue to be my number one Lent Book for the rest of my life.'