The Passion is a portrayal of the final seventeen hours in the life of Jesus. Adopting an extremely dark and violent tone, the novel depicts the sufferings and death of Jesus in the most realistic, uncensored, and complete way it has ever been told, allowing the beauty, comfort, and love of the story to be illuminated like never before. The novel starts in medias res, in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus has secluded Himself after the Last Supper...