num_pages: 384
description: Disciple Matthew a former tax collector is invited to work with Peter James and John in Jerusalem. He dreams of preaching and performing miracles like his fellow apostles but he finds his dreams postponed because of a request from Yeshua's mother. Well aware of the passing years Mary asks Matthew to help her record the stories of Yeshua while the eyewitnesses are still alive. Reluctantly he agrees though the longer he and Mary work together the more difficult their task becomes. Not only are they pressured by opposition from friends and foes alike but Gaius Caesar better known as Caligula is determined to raise a statue of himself in the Holy Temple even if it means killing every man in Israel. As Matthew works to save his people Mary encourages him to come to terms with issues from his past. When they finally near the completion of their project Matthew realizes that the job he reluctantly accepted might be his God-given destiny.
language: English
title: A Woman of Words
publisher: Bethany House Publishers