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Plot
The play illustrates that every man is a beggar at the gate--At The Gate Called Beautiful--until
he knows the Christ. The opening scene begins dramatically with a beggar called Zimri defying a curfew by praising God at the Beautiful Gate to Jerusalem before dawn. He is accosted by the patrol and explains his presence in a retelling, with a play-within-a-play the story of his encounters with Jesus and how his own life has changed. Zimri because he is a lame beggar encounters Jesus throughout Jesus's life at the Temple, first at Jesus's baptism, and then when Jesus is 12 years old. Additional events of Jesus's life are told, culminating in the dramatic presentation of the events of Holy Week. The last scene shows Zimri's encounter with Peter and John who heal him instead of giving him alms. The soldiers on patrol are amazed and convinced that they, too, need a relationship with this Jesus and are changed by their encounter with the Savior.