Rehearsal by J Robert Parkinson

What happened to Jesus during the “silent years”?

While we can never know for certain, Rehearsal follows the young Jesus through fictional, but very plausible, events as he builds a table—that will later be used for the last supper—and then transports it from Nazareth to Jerusalem, dealing with many obstacles. Travel with him and his friends as they fend off antagonists hired by a jealous local carpenter, fight a raging river, and struggle to get their precious cargo to its destination safely.