The Gospels, acted out
Some things make more sense when you can see them. Here are 30 scenes from The Chosen, a drama about Jesus, each one beside the Gospel passage it acts out.
- Read itThe passage from the Gospel comes first, in a few verses.
- Watch itThe scene from the show. Nothing plays until you tap, and captions are on.
- ThinkOne question to sit with. There is no wrong answer.
The Chosen is a drama, not the Bible. It adds people and conversations the Gospels don’t have, so every scene says plainly what the show added.
He calls people
Fishermen, a tax collector, a woman everyone avoided. How Jesus chose his friends.
I have called you by name
Jesus finds Mary Magdalene at her lowest and calls her by name.
Read and watchThe catch of fish
After a night of catching nothing, Simon's nets break with fish.
Read and watchJesus calls Matthew
Jesus asks a tax collector, the most hated man in town, to follow him.
Read and watchTwo by two
Jesus sends his twelve friends out in pairs, with almost nothing.
Read and watchSimon becomes Peter
Simon says who Jesus is, and Jesus gives him a new name.
Read and watchHe heals and helps
Water into wine, a man through the roof, a girl raised to life. What Jesus did.
Water into wine
At a wedding that has run out of wine, Jesus quietly saves the day.
Read and watchThe man with leprosy
A man everyone keeps away from asks Jesus to make him clean.
Read and watchThrough the roof
Four friends lower a man through a roof to reach Jesus.
Read and watchSimon's mother-in-law
Jesus takes a sick woman by the hand, and the fever leaves her.
Read and watchAt the pool
Jesus asks a man who has waited 38 years: do you want to be healed?
Read and watchThe withered hand
On the Sabbath, in front of people waiting to catch him, Jesus heals a hand.
Read and watchTouching his cloak
A woman who has been ill for twelve years reaches for Jesus in a crowd.
Read and watchJairus' daughter
A father's little girl has died. Jesus takes her hand and says, get up.
Read and watchFeeding the 5,000
Five loaves and two fish, and a whole hillside eats.
Read and watchWalking on water
In a storm at night, Peter steps out of the boat toward Jesus.
Read and watchLazarus, come out
Jesus weeps at his friend's tomb, then calls him out alive.
Read and watchHe teaches
The Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, John 3:16. What Jesus said.
Nicodemus at night
A teacher of the law comes in secret with his questions. Jesus tells him John 3:16.
Read and watchThe woman at the well
Jesus asks an outsider for a drink, and tells her everything she ever did.
Read and watchBlessed are…
Jesus says who is blessed, and it is not who anyone expected.
Read and watchThe Sermon on the Mount
Jesus' longest teaching, to a hillside crowd: salt, light, the Lord's Prayer, the house on the rock.
Read and watchTeach us to pray
The disciples ask Jesus how to pray, and he gives them the Lord's Prayer.
Read and watchThe extra mile
A Roman soldier forces Jesus to carry his pack. Jesus keeps walking.
Read and watchForgive how many times?
Peter asks if seven times is enough. Jesus' answer is much bigger.
Read and watchAre you the one?
John the Baptist, in prison, sends a question. Jesus answers with what people have seen.
Read and watchI am the resurrection
Before he raises Lazarus, Jesus tells grieving Martha who he is.
Read and watchHis last week
From the crowds with palm branches to the Last Supper.
Mary anoints Jesus
Mary pours expensive perfume on Jesus' feet. Judas objects.
Read and watchPalm Sunday
Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, and the crowd shouts hosanna.
Read and watchThe temple
Jesus overturns the tables of people making money in God's house.
Read and watchNot one stone
Looking at the great temple, Jesus warns what is coming.
Read and watchThe Last Supper
At the Passover meal, Jesus gives his friends bread and wine: this is my body, this is my blood.
Read and watchAbout The Chosen
The Chosen is a TV drama about Jesus and the people who knew him, made by 5&2 Studios. It opens with its own note that it is not Scripture, and its scripts are checked by a panel of Bible scholars. Every episode is free in The Chosen app ↗.
The scenes here are the show’s own videos, played from its YouTube channel exactly as they posted them. The Bible passages are from the World English Bible.