When a new teacher surfaces, Malchus is dispatched to neutralize this latest threat. Encounters with the Nazarene leave him puzzled. How could this man so change his wife, Alona? At last a disciple betrays Jesus' secret resting place, and Malchus marches the temple guard out for the arrest. But the sudden flash of a sword in the torchlight leaves him clutching his bloody head with one hand and preparing to murder a fisherman with the other. Then somehting happens that Malchus cannot explain. With a cast of 70 vibrant characters, Noni Beth Gibbs offers us a new look at the man on the middle cross--through the eyes of His enemies.