"The Chosen" Promises (TV Episode 2024) Poster

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(2024)

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8/10
The Chosen continues with powerful storytelling
jorgelazarodiaz3 June 2024
Warning: Spoilers
The episode begins with Mary visiting Elizabeth. Her baby leaps in the womb when Mary appears. The interaction between the two is so real. It's not "holy" like we can sometimes believe it when we read these accounts in scripture.

The Chosen again brings alive these stories so you can "see" them. Two pregnant relatives would be chattering like they do. Elizabeth explaining that Zachariah is mute with an, "I'll tell you later," because talk of their babies is so much more important.

It's easy to see that John the Baptist's end is coming soon. Salome is preparing her dance. Herodias wants the dance done to perfection. We see JTB in the prison being transferred.

It's written like a good Greek tragedy. You want the hero to make it, but you know that's now how the story goes.

Again, The Chosen brings these alive to us. I want to review the scriptures to see what newness I can get.

More power to these guysz.
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6/10
The dance of Salome
l-perez-dancer11 June 2024
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 40 plus 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.

Season 4, Episode 1 John the baptizer is killed. I did not think much of this episode. There was too much attention paid to Salome, Herodius and Herod and not enough on Jesus. I have not been offended by the many embellishments which the writers have added to the Bible accounts, and the embellishments concerning Herodius' conniving to trick Herod into killing John are not necessarily bad, they are just excessive. Also, Ramah is not in the Bible, neither is there any mention of Thomas pursuing marriage. Neither is there any mention of Zebedee making olive oil.

Biblical content 2% Matthew 14:3-11; Luke 1:57-64.
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