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This is the story of how a physician and skilled artist named Lucanus, of Antioch, Syria, makes a long journey to interview as many people as he can find who knew Jesus of Nazareth and then writes a book about him for his friend, the “Most Excellent Theophilus.” (His book is now that section of the Holy Bible called The Gospel According to Luke.)
The physician-artist, turned writer, presents Jesus as the Holy Child, as the Christ, Son of God, Saviour. He emphasizes how “there went a fame abroad of him! And great multitudes came to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.... And they glorified God, saying ‘A great prophet is risen among us! God has visited his people!’”
Lucanus further shows the risen Lord and tells how he appeared to his close followers on the evening of his resurrection and commissioned them to proclaim the good news of Salvation to all nations.
The title, THE FISH AND THE HONEYCOMB, is woven into and is an intricate part of the drama’s action and theme. When Theophilus asks Lucanus to design the marble mosaics for his grand new villa, they decide to feature pictures of fish. This, because First Century Christians were using the fish--and the Greek word for fish, ICTHYS--as a secret symbol. Its letters were the initials for the words. “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.”
At the climax of the play Lucanus and Theophilus conclude that in God’s promise to send his Holy Spirit to be with man, and in Jesus’ saying “Lo, I am with you, always,” man has a gift “as sweet as honey and the honeycomb.” Theophilus then asserts that he will give the book Lucanus has written a name: “The Fish and the Honey Comb” Because, the book shows Jesus as “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour” and because of his gift that is “sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.”  Also, after his resurrection, Jesus ate “fish, and of an honeycomb.”