Category Archives: The Chosen

The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 8

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

The highlight of this episode – maybe the highlight of the season for me – was the depiction of Jesus calling Thaddeus. As things go, reading the Bible alone, we know next to nothing about Thaddeus. He’s been much more … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 7

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Though each episode this season has begun with a bit of conversation from the Last Supper/Upper Room Discourse, in this and the next episode we’re finally getting into the set up and beginning of that last night itself. For all … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 6

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

So far Season 5 has begun each episode with vignettes from Jesus’ time with the disciples in the Upper Room. We see them seated at tables. We hear Jesus teaching, some from the synoptic gospels, quite a bit from John’s … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 5

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Just a few brief comments on this episode we watched last week: The characters around Jesus continue to be absolutely sure they know what they’re doing – and that they are correct. Caiaphas, the high priest, is sure that he’s … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 4

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

In this episode we see Judas in the grip of “not God.” That’s Jesus’s response to Judas’s question. Jesus has said to him, “He has you now.” “Who?” said Judas. “Not God.” Judas is happy Jesus called him to be … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 3

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We’re still in Holy Week, racing toward the cross. Jesus knows it. Sanhedrin leaders are plotting for it. The Romans are uneasy. The disciples are confused. Yet in the midst of everything happening this episode had many laugh out loud … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 2

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Season 5 depicts the beginning of Passion Week. It’s framed by teaching of Jesus from the Upper Room Discourse in the Gospel of John with bits from Luke 22. The sharpest bit from Luke 22 is v.36. In the NIV … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 1

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We’re back to watching The Chosen on Wednesday nights. Here are a few thoughts & observations from episode 1. The biblical parts of the episode (as opposed to the imaginative parts) are mostly drawn from John 12, 16, and a … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 4 Episode 8

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Last night we watched the “season ending cliffhanger” of season 4. Well, if you know the story in the Gospels you know that once Jesus has mounted his donkey and the crowds have their palm branches in hand, it’s time … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 4 Episode 7

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We watched this episode last week. Here are my thoughts and questions. The news of Lazarus’s death comes immediately on the heels of Jesus and his disciples being stoned and run out of Jerusalem. They’re still operating on adrenaline. The … Continue reading →

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