Judas can kill a man with his knife so gently that he hardly feels that someone has brushed against him. His friend Ben Joe prefers to advance the zealot revolution with preaching to rouse the masses, dazzled by his charm and his wonders. But there is another preacher in Judea with a message of peace that wins the heart of a Judas sickened with violence. He will have to betray one of them to save the other.