In The Temple follows a twelve-year-old boy from Nazareth whose parents quietly hope Jerusalem's great Temple will leave him unmoved. Three relics catch his imagination: a narrow pair of pillars, a rusted sword over a chasm and an ancient copper trumpet. While time slips past unnoticed, he witnesses a widow cheated, a poor man refused and a stranger threatened. Compassion pulls him toward the impossible, as his anxious mother searches the city.

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