It also brings together different, timely conversations (about identity among the disciples) that have been building throughout the series. The third episode, “Matthew 4:24,” offers a timely challenge and invitation to authentic Christian discipleship in the Church. Everyone in your old life is playing a different game than you now.” Philip helps Matthew memorize Psalms and understand Torah, but reminds him, “The people out there want to define us by our past, by our sins but we’re different. He has given up everything to follow Jesus, but while looking in vain for him one day he admits, “It’s like he’s actively trying to make it difficult for us to follow him.” In the second episode, “I Saw You,” we see Matthew wrestling with his past, disreputable work as a Roman tax collector while trying to accurately, credibly write to his fellow Jews about the identity of the Messiah.
In this episode, we see the stage being set for Thomas’s incredulity on Resurrection day, and his faithfulness a week later.
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And while casual viewers should be cautioned not to think that Christians can just make up Bible stories and peddle them as truth, The Chosen knows how to create peripheral, hypothetical situations that intensify rather than obscure what Scripture already says. In the first three episodes of the new season, the apostles Thomas, Matthew, and Philip have come into prominence, and the introduction of Nathaniel has offered another new, deeply moving example of the life-changing power of the God-man Jesus that The Chosen always seems to get right.Įpisode 1, entitled “Thunder,” begins and ends with scenes years after the events of Jesus’s ministry, as John talks to Our Lady about “how to begin” telling the story of their Lord-contrasting his approach with Matthew’s-and in this way invites us into an almost Ignatian contemplation of what it would have been like to be there with the disciples. The episodes are composed so far of one deeply affecting scene after another, with superb acting led by Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus. This season picks up with Jesus and the apostolic band continuing to make their way through Samaria and Syria. I am thoroughly sold on it, and inspired. But with the recent debut of season 2, I decided to take a look.
Even though my colleague Rachel Bulman reassured us all that it was not a typically “kitschy or pretentious” offering from the Christian entertainment industry, I kept my distance.
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I have come very late to the party for the acclaimed, crowd-funded dramatic series The Chosen. Home › Articles › “The Chosen,” Season 2: Getting Jesus the God-Man Right
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