I've been an avid Bible student since I was 21 years old. Prior to that I lived my life without caring what my Creator thought about my choices. My Bible study has only increased in the over the 40 years since I first started reading the Gospel accounts.
I know the Bible very well and am thoroughly enjoying The Chosen series. Naturally, since I am so familiar with the Bible account, I have some opinions about this series. I believe it is important to point out that less than 10% of each episode of The Chosen is actually from the Bible accounts. Ninety percent of these episodes are embellishments; the producer's ideas of how the Bible characters may have spoken, looked and acted, beyond what is written in the Bible. I have no problem with those embellishments. As a matter of fact, I appreciate and enjoy much of the non-biblical inventions by the writers of this series.
I would like to speak about the good and the not so good embellishments created by the writers of this series. I hope you will not be offended by my critique.
Episode 6 - Jesus heals a leper and a paralytic. Much of the things Jesus says in Zebedees house are collected from various points during his ministry in the Gospels. The sad part is that we only get to hear bits and pieces of his many parables, which are absolutely poignant and beautiful, due to the cutting away to show the Egyptian woman trying to get her friend in to be healed.
My only critique is that, one thing that the writers wrote for Nicodemus to say concerns the idea of God becoming flesh. When Jesus speaks of his "Father in Heaven", that is the One he calls "my God and Father" and God is in Heaven when Jesus is saying that. God sent His only-begotten Son to Earth, God didn't send Himself. Y'shua was Yehovah's firstborn, only-begotten Son in Heaven as a spirit being with his God and Father before being sent to Earth. They were not and are not the same spirit being. There are dozens of Scriptures, including Jesus' own words, which prove this truth. That's the only issue I have with this excellent episode.
Biblical content in this episode; 20% Mark 2:1-12 but it doesn't say whose house he was in.