Summary The Shadow Of The Galilean

The book The Shadow of the Galilean is a fictional story. The main character is a guy named Andres. He is a Jewish merchant that is from the first century of Palestine. It starts off with Andres being locked up in this cell. The Romans had put Andres in a cell and they started interrogating him. They asked him why he was going against Pilate. He told the man he was not gogin against Pilate but that did not matter. He was still help captive. The Romans came back to Andres and they had told him that he has two choices for what he can do next. He had to either get prosecuted for going against Pilate or he had to go and get information about what the Jewish was doing that could be putting the Romans in danger. Andres wisely chose to go get information
This is where Jesus was. John the Baptist had been executed and possible terrorism was happening. The Romans knew that they wanted this to be the next thing Andres investigates. The Romans wanted to make sure that there were no threats to them coming from there and to make sure Jesus was not of danger to them. So they sent Andres to go check the area out. On the way Andres found this couple who had explained how their kids left them but the one that was noted was the one who left to go to Jesus. After that Andres continued on his way but then he gets taken by the Zealots. From this he learns of why so many people choose these Rebel communities. Once Andres reaches Capernaum, he meets someone by the name of Matthias. Matthias had a sick daughter and he was hoping that Jesus would help her get better by healing her. Andres suggests using the Sabbath to find help from doctors. Later on Andres is in Bethsaida Julias. He passes a booth and talks to the person in it. Andres finds out that the previous person in the booth left to go to Jesus and also finds out that a lot of people around that road all had something in common. They had all found hope in Jesus. As soon as Andres reaches Tiberias, he decides to go see a friend of his. Andres talks to his friend, Chuza, and his wife for a bit but then Andres and his friend both find out that his wife had been secretly following Jesus. At this
While doing so he finds out that his friend, Barabbas had been arrested for resisting arrest. Andres had headed over to where he was immediately. He felt that he owned it to his friend to get him out. Andres thought of some ways that could get him out and made up many things to see if it would work. There was a lot of conversations going on and Andres was worried about if he was going to be found out or not. While all of this was going on he gets the attention of Pilate and goes to meet with him the day before the Passover. While talking to Pilate he mentions that a Jesus had been arrested for being suspected of starting messianic movements. Andres was terrified when he heard this. Pilate had said Jesus should be fine since he looked at Andre’s information about Jesus and it said he was okay. The problem with this is that Pilate was using all of Andres’ info to question him. Andres defended Jesus as much as he could. This ended up with Jesus and 2 others being executed. This is where Jesus was crucified. Andres went to where the execution was because he wanted to see Jesus. From afar he saw the 3 men on their crosses and there was a light. Andres then said that he was standing in the shadow of the