He has done a masterful job of combining fiction, folklore and history in this book. will knock your socks off and rock your world if you let it When Lloyd Douglas's housekeeper asked the innocent question about the crucifixion, "What happened to his robe sir?" this was the beginning of Lloyd Douglas's magnum opus. This very real entry into the first century A.D. It is a very weighty tome that will probably cause readers to re-evaluate and re-discover their life lessons It is a book that will hit you in the solar plexus. We see how a cocky, young Roman Centurion becomes a humble citizen whose main goal in life is to educate the people about Jesus Christ and his promised Kingdom. Marcellus was present at the time of the crucifixion of Christ, and his presence at this momentous occasion forever changed his life. The amount of work that went into this novel is astounding, and the skill in which it was created is beyond belief. Marcellus, Demetrias and Diana were as real to me as people that I may meet on the street corner any day of the week. We learn to love and care for the main characters as we hear about Jesus's life story. Yes, the story is familiar to us as Christians, but Douglas has created a wonderful meld of fiction and history in this book. Douglas has created a masterpiece here, and it has some of the the most beautiful language and prose I have ever read. It ends about 2 years after that in a Roman forum. This is a story of Jesus, and it begins just before the crucifixion on the grassy knoll at Golgotha. It is timeless in its message and in its story.
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