I’m continuing to share observations and questions from my viewing of The Chosen.

Zebedee, now that he has two sons who are following the Messiah describes his life and legacy as “waiting for the Messiah,” takes himself to be free to do something new. As the film imagines it, he sells his fishing boat and buys an olive grove.

The woman with an “issue of blood,” had been ostracized and alone for twelve years. The Law said that a person touching such a woman would become unclean. Jesus touched her, but because she had touched the hem of his garment she was already healed when he touched her.

One disciple asks another, “Now that Zee is no longer a zealot, do you think he still feels like murdering?” A question: in your life of following Jesus, how long does it take for your feelings to change so that they are aligned with Jesus?

This is also the episode where we finally see Jesus raise Jairus’s daughter. I’m reminded of the old Don Francisco song that tells this story. It’s still powerful.