We often forget when we read the Gospels that the words of Jesus are the words of a Jewish man speaking to a Jewish audience. in this screenplay turned book, allow your imagination to be stirred, as you are invited to picture Jesus as a Black Jewish man, living among mostly other Black Jews. The Bible omits many things about Jesus' life. We're not told much about his childhood, his friends, his relationship with his parents, or his relationship with his siblings. There's so much about Him we're not told. The Gospel tells us that Jesus loved Lazarus and that Jesus cried when he heard that Lazarus had died. But we're not told why they were close friends, or why Lazarus wasn't one of His disciples.
We're never told why Jesus's mother--Mary--asked Jesus to turn the water into wine. Providing wine for a wedding seems like a trivial matter to invoke the Son Of God's assistance, so why did Mary even ask Him to do it? Why didn't Mary's husband Joseph go looking for Jesus as Mary did? Why didn't the Devil return to tempt Jesus a second time, as he had threatened he would do? Or maybe the Devil did try to tempt Jesus again...
Maybe God wants us to use our minds to imagine what things may have been like for Jesus. This imaginary story is told through the eyes of Jesus' close friend Lazarus. It offers possible explanations for some of the Gospels' missing information, while remaining true to the text, and never contradicting anything in the traditional Gospels.
