@col-klink, the story of David is in 1 Samuel 21:1-6, and then Jesus references that story in Matthew 12:1-8.

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I saw someone make a comment about that argument at the end of the scene, and the arrival of Jesus, comparing it to how churches sadly fight among themselves... I thought it was a very thoughtful and intriguing comparison. 

Totally, yes! What a moving scene, and portrayed so much with few words when it hit the punch at the end.

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Spoiler on hugginess

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And why is everybody so huggy in this show? So much for falling at Jesus's feet in fear and reverence.

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Yes, I have read the Spoilers and concur with this. While I appreciate so much about The Chosen's character of Jesus, they seem to only be focusing on his gentle, gracious side, which is hugely important, of course, but needs to be balanced with his more assertive side. In Season 1, one of the Pharisees mentioned to Nicodemus that Jesus had called them "a brood of vipers", but we only heard about this second-hand. (Or was that strong term spoken by John the Baptiser? Hmm, now I may be getting confused. ) In any case, the point is that the closest Jesus comes to any assertiveness is when in S. 2, e. 1 when Jesus confronted James and John after they came to him out in the field. I could hear authority in his voice that has not been much present before. Yet it would make sense that this would develop more as time goes on, rather than, boom, at the very beginning of his ministry years. In some senses, his personality in this series reminds me of the Walden Aslan, who did not portray the power and majesty (imho) that Lewis' Aslan certainly had.

I have yet to watch Season 2, e. 4 on, ... hopefully sometime this summer.  

(I had to put my response in a separate Spoiler because the formatting was really weird otherwise.)

I didn't think I would watch the Chosen last night, but our small group ended up being cancelled again due to our fearless leaders' little boy has the croup, so they were caring for him.

I was pretty nervous going in because like you mentioned @col-klink, I had seen the spoilerish pictures and I couldn't imagine having a positive outcome. So I guess what I will say is simply that it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was all fanfiction again, mostly for the purpose of character development. Here are my two short thoughts....

Anyways, I will say this much. I am really looking forward to Episode 8, the Sermon on the Mount. I get the impression that so much of the "fluff" of this season was their attempt to put in filler so they could have this sermon be the climax for the season. And I'm hoping after this they pace it better so there's more Bible and less fanfiction. 

An interesting side-note. In the Bible, Judas Iscariot has already been chosen as part of the 12 disciples by the time they get to the SotM. I'm a bit surprised he hasn't been added in yet. Surely they could have had a backstory for him as part of the show instead of some of the other odd directions they went. Maybe that's how they plan to open Season 3? I'm also hoping that they have more of the minor disciples added in too that are named in the Bible. 😉 (ie Matthias and Cleopas, Susanna, Joanna, etc)

I've just resumed watching, after several weeks pause. I started at the beginning again, to get the feeling of it, and again I enjoyed the realism and vividness of the acting and scenes. I'll try to avoid spoilers for the episodes I've not yet seen!

I felt really dumb today. I was talking to my mom about S2E1 today which she finally watched, and after discussing it for a while she pointed out to me that.....

Duh. And of course as soon as she said that it made perfect sense. You all probably knew that already.

Who all is watching the Season Finale tomorrow? 

I'm rewatching from the start, before I watch the newest few episodes of Series 2.

Today I watched as the paralysed man wriggled his toes and then started to stand up. Tears in my eyes!

Welp, that's a wrap until next year!

I don't actually have too much to comment on because I especially don't want to share spoilers from this episode. But for those who have patiently read through my previous posts and watched the finale, I'm pretty sure you can accurately guess my feelings about it.  

I've watched the last two episodes, but there's this long blog post I should be working on, so I don't really feel like typing all my thoughts about them.

After being rather disappointed by Season 2, I completely avoided all spoilers for Season 3, other than being aware that they were filming it. 

The trailer for Season 3 has just released and I did go ahead and watched it and.... I'm tentatively excited again! There was clearly additional stuff in there that doesn't need to be in there, but I also saw glimpses of several of my favorite Bible stories, so I'm hopeful!

Yesterday I did something I've never done before in my life. I went to the movie theater ALL BY MYSELF!! My husband allowed me to escape my children for two and a half hours so I could go see the first two episodes of the Chosen season 3 in movie theaters. 

I will avoid specific spoilers for now, though if I have some time (unlikely) I may come back and edit this post to put them in, but what I will say is that it was very good. VERY good. What I saw felt like the filmmakers came back around to the same level of quality as Season 1. And as of my typing this post, I don't have a single criticism of those two episodes. After opening with the

there were not a whole lot of direct stories straight out of the Bible (though there were some!!), but there were a lot of obvious moments that are setting up for them later. 

One general spoiler

And a second general spoiler

Has anyone else gone to the theaters to see The Chosen episodes? Or is everyone else waiting for it to come out on the app? I'm ready to watch it again!  

There weren't any showings in theaters near me. But the first episode (not the second one yet) can be watched on YouTube now. 

The Chosen Global Livestream: Season 3, Episode One - YouTube

I thought it was fine, but I also think I'm OK with the fact that I didn't have to pay or go all the way to a cinema (the nearest one to me is an hour's drive away) to see it. It wasn't the most interesting episode. Then again, that may have been because so much of it was setting up for the rest of the season. If I'd watched episodes one and two back-to-back, maybe I'd have been more invested in the story. 

Anyway, I found an interesting review of the season premiere. Please note that I when I call something interesting that doesn't mean I agree with it. In some cases, it's a polite way of saying the opposite. The views expressed in that article certainly aren't all mine, but they do make for an interesting read.

Premiere Of ‘The Chosen’ Season Three Is A Triumphant Mixed Bag (religionunplugged.com)

Sorry for two posts in a row but I've got some more thoughts on a recently introduced character. 

Glad to have a fellow Chosen watcher. Hi @col-klink!  

Re: your spoiler.

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the second episode next week. I liked it better. Well, I say that, the two episodes pretty well blended together and maybe I should say that I liked them equally, but for different reasons.