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.
Season 3, Episode 6 John the baptizer's question. Many characters and accounts in this series are not from the Bible. Barnaby and Shula are not in the Bible, but the invention of these characters adds dimension to the series and at times provides excellent comic relief. The scene with Jesus answering John the baptizer's question is found in the Bible but Simon Peter's wife is not spoken of beyond the mention of him being married. The story line about the miscarriage is one that was not necessary in my opinion. Also, the casting of a 20 year old actor to play Pontius Pilate is quite odd. He really needs to be a rough, seasoned Roman dictator. Not one of the stronger episodes.
Biblical content in this episode; 5%. Matthew 11:1-30.