Simon Ish Kerioth is a Temple recorder living in first century Israel. He is a very private man who has no intention of stepping onto any world stage in history, but destiny has other plans and is about to ensure his name is recorded in what will one day become the most famous book ever written. Blackmailed by the High Priest into an assignment to gather damning evidence against a mysterious religious man with extraordinary powers, it slowly dawns on Simon that his evidence is beginning to resemble evidence for the man's defence. What will happen to Simon - more importantly, what will happen to his evidence?