The Same Coin

The dialogue of Jesus with John and His talk with the blind by selfish Juda. The evening of Him with the faithful women. The debates in Sinedreu and the confrontation between Shmuel and Joseph . The dialogue of Caiaphas with his loyal man.

Each is a brick of a more profound perception of very familiar events. Because the balance between white and black, good ones - bad ones is modified for expose the roots of attitudes , legitime, in good measure, each of them.

An episode working as interogation to viewer, less than the impressive show of preview seasons.

And the intense bitterness, so fair - precise reflected by the intro moment of Juda leaving.

I have 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 5, Episode 4 - Sanhedrin schemes

If you have read any of my reviews of past episodes, then you know that I love the embellishments that the writers of the Chosen have added to the Scriptural account as long as they do not change the reality of Jesus or the accounts recorded in Scripture.

This particular episode is 95% embellishment. The only Scriptural things in this episode are a few of the words at the Lord's evening meal (last supper) and the walk back to Bethany where Jesus sees the fig tree. However, the made-up scenes and encounters in this particular episode do not alter the character of Jesus or contradict Scripture, so I found them excellent. In this episode, the writers avoided the three glaring contradictions of the character of Jesus and Scriptural accounts; namely Eden's miscarriage which caused Peter to throw a fit; the invented character of Ramah which causes Thomas to be portrayed as a brooding little brat and the invention of the character Cafne who is leading a posse of antichrists because of his invented daughter Ramah's death.

Now, the extra words Jesus spoke with Judas at the Lord's evening meal were not really necessary; see John 13:21-35 but the invented interaction between Jesus and Judas in private was a nice way to show how Judas was stubbornly adhering to a wrong interpretation of the Messiah's role; well done. As was the invented scene with Jesus and John in private. I found it very touching. The debate among the Sanhedrin with Joseph of Arimithea (Yusef - aside; why do they use his Hebrew name but not any other's Hebrew names such as Yeshua? Odd that) was not in Scripture but was impactful and well done. Lastly, there is no Scriptural account of Jesus dining with only his women followers, but the scene was heart-wrenchingly excellent!

Biblical content; 5% - John 13:21-35; Luke 22:14-25; Matthew 21:17-19.

Jesus and the 12 travel outside the city and the Pharisees vote on an important decision. Jesus and the 12 head to Bethany, meeting with the women. Before this there is an important conversation with Jesus and Judas.

Another good episode, Jesus is really struggling as the apostles are scared and desperate for exact words to guide them.

They can all sense danger is lurking, the Pharisees are trying to find a way to get rid of Jesus through any means.

A bit slower than the previous episode but not necessarily a negative.

The scene at the last supper that starts every episode was a good one here !! 8/10.