The Missing Years

The Real Story of Jesus Beyond the Gospels (Universe Maker from Nazareth, Book 1)

What happened during the decades the Gospels never mention? Between the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem and his emergence at the Jordan River lies a vast silence. No record of his childhood. No explanation of how a carpenter's son became the most influential figure in human history.

The Missing Years fills that silence—a year-by-year account of the formative life no one recorded.

Here is the boy who lost his father at fourteen and became head of a large family. The young man who turned down a fortune and a marriage proposal to stay true to his mission. The traveler who crossed the Roman world studying humanity while preparing for what lay ahead.

Here is a real person facing real problems: poverty, family conflict, the death of loved ones. He laughs. He grieves. He grows.

But who is this young man? And what happened on Mount Hermon that transformed a Galilean craftsman into someone ready to change the world?

Book One of the Universe Maker from Nazareth saga.

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