A very human Jesus struggles with temptation, doubt, and longing as a young man. Jesus struggles to grow up: leaving home, making friends, mastering moods, finding out who he is and isn’t. He’s pushed to his limits with sexual temptation, anger, depression, and doubt. This joyful Jesus matures by failing, falling, and then rising again, stronger. Caesar’s beautiful granddaughter, Claudia, has fallen in love with Jesus, and he with her. Laugh and cry with him and his friends in their ongoing battles to grow up. In Jesus’ Silent Years , Vance Shepperson creates Jesus’ back-story: the young adult who grew into the Messiah. Find out how much he and you are more alike than different.