The Bible tells us of the birth and early years of Jesus, but the accounts fall mysteriously silent when he reaches the age of twelve. The story resumes when he reaches the age of thirty and embarks on his famous ministry, which means that there is a gap of eighteen years during which he is unaccounted for, a period that has baffled scholars for centuries or more and which has been the subject of much speculation in recent times.

Jesus Christ is the single most famous human being ever to have lived, so it follows that our apparent lack of knowledge of his whereabouts for almost two decades constitute the single greatest historical mystery that we're aware of. Comparatively few people know of the many detailed and sober legends that place a young Jesus in the West of England in the early years of the first century AD, while these legends find their most famous expression in the words of William Blake's "Jerusalem", a song that has gone on to become Britain's unofficial national anthem with its evocative opening line "And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?" These legends were recorded by three British clergymen in the early decades of the last century, but no one has ever seriously investigated the possibility that a youthful Messiah may have sailed from one of the Phoenician ports in the eastern Mediterranean to the west of England, despite the fact that there are reliable records of other such voyages in antiquity. There is a huge amount of evidence that Jesus visited the West of England and that he remained there for a considerable period of time - this captivating original material is presented for the first time in "The Missing Years of Jesus - The Greatest Story Never Told", by archaeologist and writer Dennis Price. To purchase the book... please visit this page