"In the first and longest of these twenty stories the eastern astrologer Scan-Sky tells how he and his fellow magi, with their master the Sage, follow a star through their pagan of gods and daemons to a mystery they cannot understand. In the final story an old man called Peter, a prisoner in Rome, looks back on a lakeside meal prepared by the risen Lord he once denied. [This] is a ... meditation on the gospels, told through personal accounts by people who met Jesus - some, like Peter, well known figures, others no more than names or people whose names are unrecorded. ..."--Back cover.