Confessions
- Episode aired Jun 6, 2024
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Jesus founds his church on unholy ground and Simon goes public with Jesus' true identity, getting a new name in the process. But can the new "Peter" forgive old wrongs?Jesus founds his church on unholy ground and Simon goes public with Jesus' true identity, getting a new name in the process. But can the new "Peter" forgive old wrongs?Jesus founds his church on unholy ground and Simon goes public with Jesus' true identity, getting a new name in the process. But can the new "Peter" forgive old wrongs?
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- TriviaOutside the temple, the Pharisees point to four horses. The color scheme of the four horses symbolize the four horses of the apocalypse.
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Forgiveness
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 most of 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 2 Forgiveness. Jesus is in the 7 day mourning period for John the baptizer and he takes the Apostles to Cesarea Philippi. The Bible account does not say that he took them to the Pagan site of 'the gates of hell'. The Bible does not mention this Pagan place of false worship, but archaeologists have uncovered a place of Pagan worship in Cesarea Philippi dedicated to the god Pan, which the writers of The Chosen have dubbed 'the gates of hell' and have suggested is where Jesus took the Apostles.
The most accurate English translation of the Koine Greek word used at Matthew 16:18 is not "hell", it is "the grave". When Jesus said "on this rock I will build my congregation, and the gates of the grave will not overpower it" , he was stating that the congregation of his true followers would not suffer death forever, but he would resurrect them in God's Kingdom when it comes "on Earth as it is in Heaven". Peter said "you are the Christ, the Son of the living God" and that is the "rock" or "foundation" of the congregation of his true followers worldwide.
The Chosen writers naturally embellished the account of Jesus bringing the Apostles to Cesarea Philippi. They invented an entire controversy of Cesarea Philippi in a prior episode and I do not think that's a bad thing. The embellishments are often very well done and bring out the human side of the Apostles, but there is no such place called "the gates of hell" in Cesarea Philippi. It is the altar, or temple of Pan.
Other than that fact, this episode is excellent. I especially loved the issue between Peter and Matthew, even though it is not in the Bible. The scenes between them were powerfully portayed and brought me to tears. The biggest miss there is that the writers of The Chosen could have easily included the very powerful 2 minute parable Jesus gave the Apostles at Matthew 18:23-35 which followed Peter's question about how often to forgive someone.. I encourage you to read it for yourselves please.
One last clarification. The writers of The Chosen chose to make it appear that Peter got his name in Cesarea Philippi, but the fact is that Jesus gave Simon his new name right after he invited him to become his follower. See John 1:42
Biblical content 50% Matthew 10:34-37; Matthew 16:13-20; Matthew 18:21-22.
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 most of 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 2 Forgiveness. Jesus is in the 7 day mourning period for John the baptizer and he takes the Apostles to Cesarea Philippi. The Bible account does not say that he took them to the Pagan site of 'the gates of hell'. The Bible does not mention this Pagan place of false worship, but archaeologists have uncovered a place of Pagan worship in Cesarea Philippi dedicated to the god Pan, which the writers of The Chosen have dubbed 'the gates of hell' and have suggested is where Jesus took the Apostles.
The most accurate English translation of the Koine Greek word used at Matthew 16:18 is not "hell", it is "the grave". When Jesus said "on this rock I will build my congregation, and the gates of the grave will not overpower it" , he was stating that the congregation of his true followers would not suffer death forever, but he would resurrect them in God's Kingdom when it comes "on Earth as it is in Heaven". Peter said "you are the Christ, the Son of the living God" and that is the "rock" or "foundation" of the congregation of his true followers worldwide.
The Chosen writers naturally embellished the account of Jesus bringing the Apostles to Cesarea Philippi. They invented an entire controversy of Cesarea Philippi in a prior episode and I do not think that's a bad thing. The embellishments are often very well done and bring out the human side of the Apostles, but there is no such place called "the gates of hell" in Cesarea Philippi. It is the altar, or temple of Pan.
Other than that fact, this episode is excellent. I especially loved the issue between Peter and Matthew, even though it is not in the Bible. The scenes between them were powerfully portayed and brought me to tears. The biggest miss there is that the writers of The Chosen could have easily included the very powerful 2 minute parable Jesus gave the Apostles at Matthew 18:23-35 which followed Peter's question about how often to forgive someone.. I encourage you to read it for yourselves please.
One last clarification. The writers of The Chosen chose to make it appear that Peter got his name in Cesarea Philippi, but the fact is that Jesus gave Simon his new name right after he invited him to become his follower. See John 1:42
Biblical content 50% Matthew 10:34-37; Matthew 16:13-20; Matthew 18:21-22.
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