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episode 2 is here live stream is here

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sounds like a lot of money but when

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which is how to watch these episodes

emotionally and spiritually

last week we had an episode episode one

of season two

which at the beginning was kind of

mysterious not everything

made sense right away that was

purposeful that's how we actually tell

stories sometimes is we kind of reveal

things slowly

and i was watching the chat because i

thought this was such a cool opening and

there were a lot of people who were like

who is that what is that what's he

saying

what did he who who's this guy and then

throughout the episode they were

trying to like guess things they were

trying to guess which bible story this

was connected to

and there were many people who just

weren't watching the episode like they

would watch a normal television show

normally when you watch a television

show you just sit and you enjoy it

and you know that the filmmakers have

are going to give the answers if they

don't reveal them right away

and you just let it come and you just

enjoy it and chatting is great and if

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or on facebook

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have an amazing team of people

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answer that ask those questions

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make sure that you're not letting that

interrupt your experience watching the

show because some people were actually

typing things and missing really key

lines that explained exactly what was

going on

so chat if you want but if you want to

make sure that you understand everything

just save your chat for the end of the

episode

and just lean in and enjoy it and

recognize that not every episode is

about a specific bible story some of the

episodes are just to get you to know the

characters

this is not just like a verse by verse

dramatization of the bible this is a

television show about the people of

first century galilee whose lives were

changed by the greatest man of all time

and the greatest god of all time the

only god of all time

so pay attention lean in watch it like

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see how fast i did that let's get right

into episode two i promise you

stick around for the end don't want to

miss the ending the ending of the

episode is really beautiful too a lot of

people's

a lot of people last night were just

weeping and chatting and all that stuff

saying how much they loved it

but after the episode i've got something

a little a couple little surprises for

you you're not going to want to miss

here it is episode 2 of season two thank

you so much

so glad you're here enjoy

i need the sea water for the cement lay

on these it will take three days

you can't stop construction for three

days is it because i'm jewish

now that i know it's not because of you

i've been telling you

and anyone i can get to listen i even

throw the prim

i need that saltwater the cement won't

set to full

strength sea water's heavy it's hard to

move

understand plans are hard to draw

bedrock hard to reach it's all hard

but your incompetence is making it

harder for hey i'm just telling it like

it is

three days nathaniel you're in no

position to make demands you're lucky

enough to have this why i have to demand

what i need leontis

do you know how hard i've worked to earn

a roman commission

as a jew you're a child that skipped the

line the men don't respect you for that

skipped the line just because i was

smart enough to go to school instead of

getting mad 20 men show up every day who

cares what they think

i care they need to shed a vision they

need to each do their jobs

the day laborer the craftsman the

foreman and the architect

yes in concert with me who do you think

you are

i am the foreman here you think that if

everyone would just do it your way then

it will all turn out

i do well people have their own ideas

marcus we need help

you'll ruin do you hear me it's over

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you

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oh

what do you mean two days away he said

to leave enough firewood for the next

weary traveler you heard that john

what if there isn't enough used up all

the dry stuff

that's why it's good to have some strong

bodies around like the sons of thunder

here

what you told him don't worry he made

himself look just as bad as you did

hey

who is that maybe it's a scout from

well we said maybe he's just walking

no one just walks in the bashan no one

but us

don't come any closer

he's jewish you think what do you want

for the romans to go away

for a pretty wife someday

i ate a fat and goose once i love that

again

are you followers of the rabbi jesus in

nazareth don't say anything

could be a spy spying for whom

for what there are spies but they're not

smart enough to dress like this

are you simon son of jonah

who are you you're new at this

i get it once you've followed your rabbi

for long enough you won't even blink

when a strange man such as myself walks

out of the woods

with a message he can only give to jesus

directly yeah we are pretty new

doesn't make us dumb we can't let you

see the rabbi without knowing your

business

i can't say

if you want to send me away fine

say hello to my friend andrew for me

though

do you think i don't know

bring him in i guess let jesus figure it

out

something's not sitting right with simon

and who has friends feel it

hey there he is

oh you smell terrible oh what did you

expect huh

come on what are you doing here

you never mentioned a philip when we

were there you'll find this shocking but

i have a whole life that doesn't revolve

around i'm just asking about the scoop

he's not

cook you know you could be a little

less you all the time

fair enough you take it to him

make nice

do you think

we've been back five minutes

philip

philip

you'll never know when you get to sleep

next

ah where will you have clean water take

advantage when you got either one

thank you sounds like you're in a war

out there with creepy with

john the baptizer ah no war has rules

what did you find

nothing suitable of course you didn't

find any where did you look

to the east one mile that's the ravine

anything you'd find there would be wet

yes

i discovered that but there was wood it

was wet

that's matthew he checks the ravines for

wood

probably fishes in the desert too

good work matthew thank you

who are you well

i'm the guy who drives wood now if only

you had an arsenal of weapons we could

do it in the manner of ezekiel

how did ezekiel drive would no it's the

prophecy against gog and magog

and then those who dwell in the cities

of israel

will go out and make fires of the

weapons and burn them

shields and bucklers bows and arrows

clubs and spears and they will make

fires of them for seven years

for they will make their fires of the

weapons

shall we hey

keep the fire going

you're strongest and

cheapest

something wrong friend

yes

did someone die

i'm sorry for your loss

was it sudden

i think

it was a long time coming for him

but it felt sudden

tell me about him

he was an architect

that's what he wanted to be his whole

life

sad he came from nothing

worked his way up love the god

he wanted to build synagogues eventually

i i no that's not very popular

one with colonnades that sing parapets

that

practically pray wanted halls that draw

the soul

upward to god

that's what god made him for

or so he thought

he sounds like an ambitious guy

what did he die of

hubris

it's me by the way

i'm the dead man in the story yeah

i got that

just wanted to be clear

did you learn to drive with before or

after you started following jon

what's up with you and simon he doesn't

like me

he sees me as his enemy why as a tax

collector

that is everyone's enemy that doesn't

shock you

i was something else once too

once you've met the messiah am is all

that matters

next time he rides you remind him that

the people out there

they want to define us by our past

our sins

with the sleepers but we're different

but awake

i don't understand well you haven't felt

any relief except with him have you

your rabbi no

don't expect to

how did you memorize prophecy in hebrew

school

like all jewish boys didn't you i

started

but then i skipped ahead escape the head

never heard of anyone skipping ahead

what did they do that for i was sent to

apprentice under a bookkeeper

were you that good with numbers or that

bad with torah i was proficient in both

no i'm kidding

how old would you skip the head eight

eight

i showed unusual promise i bet you did

how come you never circled back to torah

i was paraded before the magistrate

rome offered me higher wages than the

annual income of my father and three of

his brothers combined

bought my first house when i was 13. why

did you need to buy a house

my father kicked you out

i don't blame him

i thought you said he's a man he acted

by man's standards

everybody in your old life is playing a

different game than you now

you get it

no

everyone speaks in rituals i can

understand esoteric ideas they're not

beyond me

of course not you'll probably pick it up

faster than the rest of us

i'm sorry man i don't mean to sound like

an oracle here it's a force of habit

spend all your time with a rogue

preacher in the wilderness and you get

to be a little obtuse

they're simple ideas for complicated

people

i just

in your obtuse language

here's the circle it represents

everything in the world and all the

people that have ever been

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and that's me that's how i feel

well said good for you

and yes i've been living literally

outside this circle with john the

outcast for

a couple years so i can relate

you're fine matthew

stick around you're gonna be all right

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so

uh

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this was done for you

blessed are you

blessed are you lord of god

king of the universe

before this one

you might play it although

that might like

do not hide your face from me in the day

of my distress

incline your ear to me

that's certainly speedy in the day when

i go

oh

this was done for you

do not hide your face from me

do you see me

do you see me

okay

what's that for it turns a blade into a

razor for logs

protect your hands

thank you

nice

i i've never done manual labor before

he must have worked pretty hard to avoid

it but that's behind you now too

got to lean into it let someone teach

you a thing

laugh at someone's jokes and then tell

jokes

do you know any i mean what jokes

so was it difficult to leave it all

behind

no it should have been i was comfortable

i had a dog

bold i like it it was a source of

amusement for others

my house was bought with blood money

my parents and i haven't spoken much in

years

and numbers didn't make the world clear

anymore you gave everything away to keep

it

but it's uncomfortable when nobody likes

me

if this rabbi jesus of nazareth called

you it means you already have everything

you need for right now

he'll give you the rest in time i just

don't know what he sees in me

he's a religious teacher and i know very

little about religion

but i understand jesus doesn't love

everything about religion

matthew what you think you know it

doesn't matter

only that jesus chose you

that's where your confidence comes from

now

i know he knows what he's doing

just wish i did skipped at a hebrew

school at eight

i think he'll catch on

here's an easy one if somebody asks you

to tell a joke tell them you have a

vegetable joke

but it's corny

we'll work on it

um

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um

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now

shalom shalom i'm glad to see you here

i'm phillip

wait john told you no i remember your

face

you were standing with andrew the day i

was baptized by john

ah how was my old cousin

i shouldn't call him old or the same age

his reputation with rome is down but his

spirits are up

sounds about right he sends me with a

message

wants me to tell you something on my

behalf that's good because i have

something to say to you too

it's a very short message only two words

mine is also short

follow i will

so john thinks you're ready yes

he spoke with someone shall we

john spoke to someone the last time he

was in prison

someone a pharisee

he had been troubled by a miracle he

witnessed in the red quarters in

capernaum

ah yes i know this man

you know him yes i might even call him a

friend

john told me to expect anything

to expect nothing but i think he'd be

trouble to know that you are friends

with a pharisee

we'll get over it well

then we received the word of what you

did in cana that was all john needed to

hear

he sends his love and you

make her offering hardly

you will be the most experienced of all

my followers

john is hardly standard procedure even

better

if i may be so bold what are your

intentions here in bashan

just passing through this area philippi

cesarea for one night and then we'll

continue north

into syria syria

that's right i heard you were just in

samaria and not to syria

you and john are really cut from the

same cloth

if i didn't know any better i'd say you

each had a death wish

i wouldn't exactly call it a wish

but a what i guess what

it's nothing i'm still thinking through

how to talk about it

it's why i was gone for a couple of days

a lot on my mind yes you can imagine

in syria we go to damascus

antioch not to the big cities no to the

smaller places

i'll wake him later

we should get some sleep phillip we've

got a long road ahead of us tomorrow

i'll turn the fire

yes whatever

rabbi one last thing yes

if there's time i have a friend in

caesarea who

i haven't seen in quite some time your

friend lives in a roman city

he's an architect ah if there's time

i love the course of course only if this

time

listen if we don't make time for friends

we won't have any

good night good night philip

good morning

did i sleep late the sun is hardly up

off my back

it gets easier a little

you get used to it

are you packing i am i pack every

morning now i never know if we'll be

somewhere for

a night or a week that sounds hard

i didn't think about how this would

really work

i think everyone's struggling with that

in some way

how about you

marry wasn't it exciting yesterday when

the men began reciting prophecy

and a little intimidating yes

we need to catch up okay

how i can't read i'll teach you how to

read them

where would we get materials leave it to

me i know who to ask

i am thankful before you living and

enduring

for you have mercifully restored my soul

within me

great is your faithfulness

it's more than two days worth ah it's

wet no

it's dump good morning good morning boys

ah that stuff will smoke something

terrible if you like it now but

by nightfall it did well i didn't do it

now then whoa our young smart friend

alex no matthew

who's thomas

ah i'm sorry thomas i'm still learning

everyone's names

it reminds me of a time with john simon

calls him creepy john

look that's good i like that so

the flock was evading roaming patrols

moving up and down the jordan you were

on the run one day

john start addressing us by name

zechariah

tobias miguel we all start looking

around at each other like

who's he talking to and then we realize

we don't know each other's names we'd

been out there for months

and we only knew each other's nicknames

or aliases how is john

same old john he's proud of you

i can tell you that much like a father

i think it's nap time wake me if there's

work to do boys

uh think matthew

if you see him

john remembers me

ah i thought that might be what you were

doing hiding

no writing

are you hiding philip says i don't have

to do that anymore

ah a new guy i like him already

everybody does he's like simon but not

like simon

what are you writing just taking notes

on what i see

this i'm used to writing daily now

began as a chore but it's become a habit

i think prayer is like that at first

anyway

and the way rabbi taught me

now i love it

in the short time that i have followed

people have quarreled over things jesus

said

remember things differently and disputed

his meaning

i think it's best we have a written

record to refer back to

everything he says and does yes

that's not a good idea why

we have enemies there are people trying

to trap jesus in his words they could

twist

something he said to defame him have you

thought about that they will find it

easier to twist something he is reported

to have said than if it is confirmed in

writing that's not how the world works

people can twist words however they want

but it's clearly written yeah i bet this

clear is the last time i saw you writing

in your journal

spying on me for the romans and to think

i came here to thank you

people out there want to define all of

us by our pasts

but we do things differently because of

him

for the record it's a bad idea write

that

down we head out in an hour

[Music]

he's not wrong

just be careful

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is my brother slowing it down back here

always

hey you watch simon and me in a footrace

we'll settle this once and for all race

yourself to the front

rick james is asking for a leaf on that

card already

i thought we called him big for the

reason yeah that's why his shift is the

longest come on you're up

i'll be up next andrew no no no you

don't need to i want to

you shouldn't let me tell you something

some days i miss manual labor

fewer questions less speculation honest

sweat

back to the adonai

you know it's funny i would have thought

that the keeper of the shifts would have

been matthew's job not yours

why is that he thinks in divisions

calculation

order yeah i've noticed speaking of

matthew i wanted to tell you

he's writing down everything you do of

course he is

and that's fine with you it is

all right good to know you strike me as

someone who acts on instinct

feeling yeah but i do think

i think all the time that's what i was

hoping to talk to you about

you were yeah i've been thinking the

group is growing every day

and with greater numbers come more

opinions and

perspectives sure we're all unified

behind you

you're all unified we all agree

on you but sometimes you're away and

during those times we don't have your

authority to defer to

well you have my instructions yeah we

have a goal or instruction or someplace

to go but how we get there

how we achieve it sometimes there's a

lot of noise

so what are you suggesting

i'm suggesting we formalize the

structure

for what for how decisions are made how

plans are formed and

what is the process for raising

objections to those plants

when and how they are vocalizing to whom

such as how you send james and john

ahead to syria to prepare

we can schedule that in advance or for

instance maybe

all contrary ideas are rooted through

big james

filtered and then brought to me for

consideration

just thinking out loud simon i love how

you are trying to make things better for

the whole group

you could stand to be a little nicer

sometimes but you're a leader

you always have been and always will be

i cherish that in you and i will need it

i will need it in time every one of

these people i have called for a reason

each of them brings something unique and

important to the whole

i want every voice heard and

non-silenced

everyone can learn from each other yes

but some people are troubled with tiny

things and they slow us down

i won't ask who you mean by that

but i will say if someone is thinking

about things you feel slow everyone down

maybe you need to slow down

one day simon there will need to be more

structure

and i see you playing a big part in it

out of all humility rabbi

why not now why not more structured

today

because i am still of course you're

still

here are you saying one day won't be

it's a conversation for another time but

we will talk about it

i think so soon

ah there's that word

soon it's the most imprecise thing in

the world

what is soon a few hours

a few days years a hundred years a

thousand years

ask my father in heaven how long a

thousand years is

then talk to me about soon

where you going to leave andrew the cart

but it's not your time but i tried to

tell my mother at cana how much good did

it do

something wrong nothing wrong uh

you wanted to ask a favor of course

can i borrow a tablet

did simon put you up to this no

i'm going to teach remember how to read

we want to study torah

that's what i want to do well they don't

allow women in the batsmetrash

how can i get to the scrolls i could

copy them for you

you know they're really long

maybe we could ask philip what is the

most important part i'm

pretty sure it's all important we don't

even know where to start

well that's still why philip

he's kind to me fabulous too

i'm sorry they're the exception matthew

i'll talk to phillip

everything good up here yes we're going

to study torah

who you and mary and matthew

matthew doesn't know anything about

torah how

do you know as matthew knows that's the

point

and you don't read i wasn't sent to

hebrew school like you

so that's exactly what i learned from

that

it's not like we're trying to be

teachers or anything we just want to

learn more

have you taken your shifts with the

cardio

anything you need to know you can always

ask me

be happy to answer any questions

you know that right of course

good

my turn with the cars

a passage to memorize anything that

would get me started

to make up for lost time no matthew he

didn't lose any time

he just got rearranged gaining it all

back now

but in the meantime i i want to

understand the same things you do

and everyone else ah it doesn't happen

overnight

look there it is

family that does not take annie to my

former rabbi

why well john criticizes them for things

like killing their own sons and marrying

their own nieces things like this

i suppose he should welcome to the

empire

of course you should know more about

this than any of us no offense

i'm going to go up ahead passage to

memorize

i'll work on this

nathaniel

hey nathaniel it's me phillip

latanya

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daniel

daniel

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hey

oh are you sick what's going on

yeah why are you in bed

what happened my friend are you okay

sure

hi we need to get you some water

i am truly sorry my friend

no one was killed it could have been

worse i could be in prison

i'm still proud of you

i've lived through you at times you know

that through me

yes i'm living through you man

i mean it what part

going to classes endlessly dealing with

bureaucrats day in and day out i

skip that part

i mean the part about building something

with your own hands

i had the calling i don't regret

it but while you were in the city being

validated by

top professionals

i was in the wilderness

it's a lot of yelling i don't deny

occasionally being jealous that

you had actual physical evidence to show

for your efforts

you don't know what your impact was or

will be i have a good idea what it'll be

the cold day and gehenna before they

hire another jew

i thought i knew where god was putting

me too

so what are you doing here i thought you

were out making enemies all over the

place

i'm about to make a whole lot more

enemies all over the place john

sent me to someone new oh you sure know

how to pick him he's not just anyone

that's what you said about the baptizer

and i was right but this is

more this is who the baptizer has been

preparing us for

nathaniel

he's the one the one the one who moses

foretold and the prophet said would come

no what

the one jesus of nazareth

son of joseph that's it

[Laughter]

can anything good come out from that

come and see oh

little dump on a craggy hilltop serious

no paved roads no public buildings they

barely have a synagogue you can't

you really can hey i'm just telling it

like it is why can't i do that because

you're

mean the families illiterate day

laborers and peasants by the way

sleep under the same roof as their

livestock listen to me honestly philip

saying

the one is a nazarene practically

just come and see

i what you gonna be late for work

wow that's dark

so dark

your whole life you've wanted to serve

god

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to meet the son of god the king of

israel

i promise you will not regret it

and if you do i'll refund your misery

but i know you you don't mess around

you will want to join him

he's like no rabbi who ever has been or

will be

i've never seen you talk like this

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i'm still hung up on the nazareth

come and see

rabbi well

this is a good night you know who stands

beside you there

this is my friend nathaniel yes

the truth teller i'm sorry

man is often deceitful and israel began

with jacob a bit of a deceiver yes

yes but one of the great things about

you is you are a true israelite

and whom there is no deceit

what did you say about me

what is this how do you know me

i have known you long before philip

called you to come and see

don't look at him look at me

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when you were in your lowest moment

and you were alone

i did not turn my face from you

i saw you under the victory

rubber

there it is

you are the son of god

the king of israel

i knew it well that didn't take long

he doesn't mess around

because i said to you i saw you under

the victory you believe

you are going to see many greater things

than that

like jacob you are going to see heaven

open

and the angels of god ascending and

descending

upon the son of man

that's me by the way

yeah and i got that good

i know you like to be clear

sorry to interrupt but john just arrived

with a message from syria he came back

yeah he said people are already

gathering to meet you

many with afflictions to be healed your

fam is spreading

the good kind you should request but we

should leave early

thank you boys

so you wanted to help build something

that would cause prayer

and songs something to bring souls

closer to god yes

can you start tomorrow

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well i hope that blessed you

uh that last scene still gets to me and

something i want to share with you

and i promise you stay with me for a few

more minutes you are not going to want

to miss

a couple of things that i have to share

with you okay just trust me

trust me okay um nathaniel

who was beautifully played by uh austin

and philip who is played by

yoshi two of our new characters who i

think are immediately becoming fan

favorites

especially philip who of course taking

matthew under his wing

but think about this so nathaniel is

actually

um loosely based on me at least in my

back story we know that

um my my co-writer ryan actually

he was one who had this idea i was in

that place

i was in that place just a few years ago

when

i was desperate and i had my

dreams had crashed i didn't have a

building crash like nathaniel did but

i everything i had built everything that

i was doing in my career my hollywood

career

had just crashed and when my movie

failed at the box office and in two

hours i went from a director with a very

bright future to a director with no

future

and one of the things that i was saying

to god was i did this for you i was

making these movies for you

are you actually seeing me and god

showed up in such a powerful way and

it's a long story but it ultimately led

to the chosen

and that line at the end from jesus when

he says to nathanael

you know do you want to build do you

want to bring people to god do you want

to

cause people to pray and sing can you

start tomorrow

and it's going to look a lot different

than what nathaniel was doing nathaniel

was building buildings

but now he's going to be doing this in a

different way he's going to be doing it

spiritually in his following of god as i

was in that spot

and i remember when we were shooting

that scene under the tree when nathanael

is crying

and begging god and i pulled austin

aside and i told him this is actually

based on my story and i shared with him

my personal story

and it really made him emotional of

course and made me emotional and

and i think in many ways it under

allowed him to understand the scene even

more

and hopefully for you as an audience

you're able to see

that these people who live 2000 years

ago are our story

that their experiences are our

experiences their struggles and their

pain are

is also ours but the answer is also ours

and to illustrate that i want to show

you something that came in

just last night because we showed this

episode last night to our investors and

to those who have paid it forward at 300

dollars or more and there's a woman

who's been a

fan of the show for a while a big

supporter of the show

uh has as in our is on our fan club and

everything just very

always been eager and last night she

posted this video

a very brief video that i want to play

for you and she shared her thoughts on

this episode and i want you to see this

so check this out

i'm not even going to try to not cry

while talking about this

i just finished watching um

episode 2 of season 2 of the chosen

i got to be part of the early access

showing tonight

and it premieres tomorrow

guys the main character in this episode

i just watched my life over the past

year

play out on screen and the words

that jesus says at the end of the

episode

i felt like they were spoken right to me

the prayer that this character prayed

without giving spoilers away

i've been praying like that all year

specifically a couple days ago just

wondering

lord why aren't you answering me he just

did

new favorite episode

come and see um so that was elinzia i

hope we're pronouncing her name right

elinzia eliza really cool name

but she had her the heart to share that

with

people and it just really meant a lot to

me last night but that is what this show

is about

that is what come and see is about and

that's why we're launching this come and

see initiative

is if you go right now to the chosen

gifts dot com

www dot gifts or it's in the app as well

you can go to the store maybe not do it

right now because i don't want you to

miss what i'm about to share with you

in the app if you're watching in the app

but just write that down

thechosengifts.com

and uh we have these shirts come and see

in these hoodies

and long sleeve shirts and all that

because this is our initiative this is

our mission statement

for the next few years our goal is to

reach a billion people with the

authentic jesus with this show

we want a billion people to see this and

that's sounds crazy but it's actually

in line with how this whole show is gone

this whole show has been a little crazy

but this initiative and we're not we're

not making it subtle come and see

this is going to cause people to ask

questions what do you mean by that of

course it's got the chosen on the back

i'm going to turn around and show you it

says the chosen on the back but

this is about starting conversations but

this is a this is a

kind of a mission statement for you

because there are so many people

whose experience matches phillips and

nathanael's

with this show think about it philip

goes to nathaniel and he says you've got

to see the messiah you've got to come

meet this guy

and what is and that's what you've been

doing so many of you been saying you got

to watch the chosen you got to come see

this show

and what do people say oftentimes i got

i got a message from an old friend today

who said

my uh my mother has been telling me

about the show for so long and i just

she normally likes christian stuff and i

don't but i finally watched it it's

incredible what do people say

like nathan nathaniel said can anything

good come out of nazareth

and that's probably what you hear

sometimes can anything good come out of

christian media can anything good come

out of a jesus show

for some people i'm not even a believer

in jesus why would i watch this or i

don't like christian entertainment

and then what do you say just come just

watch it just come and see and you sit

some people have physically set

people down and say you've got to watch

this and then they become fans of the

show and uh

here's another quick uh comment that you

know that we got from someone

a friend recommended this movie to me

it's a show of course but

i was skeptical only because i've seen

so many jesus flicks

with so much disappointment well this

was a wonderful surprise it was the

spark my spirit needed beautifully

produced

acted written the cinematography is

outstanding the cast is wonderful

i thanked my friend this morning for the

gift of this show

another my 19 year old watched the

chosen season one with me and told me

this

made her feel urgency to stop and talk

to god because she stopped being close

with him

long ago she just called me and said she

turned off her music while she was

driving and just spoke to god

while she was alone driving my heart is

swollen with joy talking about her kids

another woman shared i was blown away by

the episode one of season

two this is what she watched last week

all the scriptural references you put in

throughout i've been trying to get my

mom to watch it

for over a year she was not showing much

much interest in wanting to watch it

however yesterday

she decided to be begin season one i got

a message from her today saying she

watched all the way up to season two

episode one

that's the and see initiative that's

the only way we're gonna get to a

billion people

and the only way we're gonna get to a

billion people is if we keep the show

free

because obviously there's most of a

billion people especially around the

world are not going to be able to

afford a show like this so please

continue to spread the word about it

please continue

you know get a shirt like this and

that's kind of the cool thing about this

shirt about the hoodie

is that not only is it a mission

statement and it's a it's

it's a conversation starter but by just

simply getting it

you're doing your part by getting it

you're allowing us to

finance more future episodes and seasons

okay so i got a little surprise for you

i want to give you a sneak peek of

episode three

okay so uh check this out this is less

than a minute

and then i've got something to share

with you afterwards but this is a sneak

peek of episode three

and uh you'll get a little taste of it

so here it comes

there have been over 60 people already

with 50 waiting in line currently not

including lepers

and others who are still in line i mean

it's great what he's doing obviously but

i wish

it would have happened tomorrow what is

happening

what are we a part of no amount of

learning

can bring you closer to god or make you

more or less precious to him

i'm ready for this day to be over why

hasn't he healed you

so how did you feel when that happened

when what happened his birth

do you even know what it's like to be

jewish

you put me in a desperate position where

i did things i would never have done

otherwise

so come and see but here's i got a

little bit of bad news

or maybe not perfect news it's actually

good news i think and then i've got some

good news so here's the

the not as awesome news for some of you

tonight

is the last night you will be able to

watch an episode on youtube or facebook

and some of you are saying no no no no

youtube's the only way i can watch it

no you can go to the chosen dot tv

www.thechosen.tv or better yet you go to

the app the app is working great

some of you might have experienced we

had a few a handful of complaints

tonight that they were experiencing

black screen

but that was actually quite a minority

we had over 100 000 people watching in

the app

and it worked great including for myself

okay so that's the lesser great news

tonight is the very last night you're

going to be able to watch an episode of

the chosen on youtube or facebook

here's the good news remember when i

told you that as soon as we had episodes

done

we would show them to you as soon as

they were ready i would bring them out

that i'm not going to follow a set

schedule so how about we just show you

episode three right now

how about tonight as our last night

together on youtube and facebook

i could stick to my promise episode

three was finished around the same time

as episode two maybe one day later

and so let's just go right into episode

three how about that it's

one of my favorite episodes we've ever

done there's some amazing things in this

episode and i can't wait for you to see

them

so i'm going to stop talking shut dallas

up

and we're just gonna go right into

episode three and at the end of the

episode i'll have a couple more

important things for you to share

but thank you for being here you being

here tonight live

you choosing to make an appointment with

us tonight you get rewarded you get to

see it before everyone else

i know normally investors get to see it

before everyone else i'm sure they're

gonna be okay we asked a few of the

investors are you okay if we just show

episode three

right away to tuesday night right after

episode two and they were of course

happy to do so so here we go episode

three let's get right into

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it

oh

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[Music]

me

[Applause]

[Applause]

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oh

uh

but where would be a good place to start

for you

yes for me the law of moses the

prophecies of isaiah

the wisdom

for you i think psalms of david good

start

i'm ready for example

so the choir master has some of them if

i ascend to heaven

you are there if i make my bed in the

depths

you are there and

just that just a few more minutes thank

you for your patience guys thank you but

i'm not planning on ascending to heaven

or making my bed deep in the depths

you asked for a passage yes but one that

could help you understand how

you and everyone else knows more that's

what i know and what you must come to

believe if you want to make any

meaningful study of torah

i don't understand excuse me yes

can you tell me what happened to jesus

he healed me till do you have what

happened yes and how long

say it back to me

if i ascend to heaven you are there if i

make my bed deep in the depths

you are there there's nowhere you can go

no height you can climb to in your

intellectual mind no depths you can

reach in your soul where god

is not with you do you get it

i think so no amount of learning

can bring you closer to god or make you

more or less

precious to him he's always right here

right now

with you before you

but i don't feel it the feeling doesn't

always come first sometimes you have to

believe first

believing a thing does not make it true

that is wisdom but

these are not just any words they are

david's in scripture

but how do you know whether david was

only talking about himself and not

everyone else

he did say if i ascend not if people

send

it almost sounds like you don't want it

to be true excuse me

can you please tell me what happened to

jesus are you with him

yes yes we are his students

are you okay i'm fine

so with the passage of david i'm just

trying to understand

the trying is the thing

meditate on it for a few days and come

back to me you're always writing things

down

try writing it down several times

something about writing it down that

goes a long way

that's what i say too matthew

i think we've only just begun to know

all you can do

that is little james you're up

that's the line it's getting longer i'll

come back out soon and help you i won't

take my full break

what is nathaniel it's my turn to

replace him said he's staying through

doesn't want to stop his shift

philip take my place see if you could

make some headway he's scary good

did you see what he did there have been

over 60 people already with

50 waiting in line currently not

including lepers and

others who are still in line you save

over 50 in the line right now

yes how long is this going to last well

it depends on each encounter you have

never mind i get it

matthew yes did you get some ideas from

yes from the songs of david the passage

to study before we learn more

if i ascend to heaven you are there if i

make my bed deep in the depths you are

there

what is that from the firewood from

before yes

and then when i push back the man that

was rushing the line i cut it more

on his back hand me that rag

the same man you speak of bumped into me

on his way out after jesus healed his

wife

i believe he's one of the men who

arrived here last night

almost a four hour walk this morning and

we didn't even have a moment to settle

in

i mean it's great what he's doing

obviously but i wish

it would have happened tomorrow what is

happening

what are we apart of is it wrong to say

i have no idea

no it makes me feel better i think that

i haven't had time to think about it

all this time my parents i just know

hate it other than that i figured thomas

and i would get our answers from the

rest of you

the world is already spreading so fast i

didn't think about that

have you thought about the fame from all

of this i wouldn't mind being famous

i'm not surprised it's not as fun as you

might think

i cannot remember that time i did not

think about the messiah at least once a

week

my whole life i prayed and prayed that

he would come during this time

and i just hope that i would at least

get to see him

but to be close to him like this and

nobody like me i

what's not fun about that you call today

fun

maybe not fun but good with this fame

comes enemies you will be hated too

i'm used to that well you were protected

and your enemies weren't powerful

speaking of enemies if someone had told

you growing up

that you would be a student of the

messiah you

you would be close to him and you will

help him in his mission

what would you have thought i would have

said

sorry i'm a girl ask my brother

that's fair enough but really thomas

what would you thought i would have

thought

i don't have military training that's

still a problem actually exactly

when i was a child i used to think how

amazing it would be to see messiah kill

all the romans

on my street and i wanted to help him i

trained every day

with a wooden sword yes and i have this

scar that proves he was pretty good

i used to imagine that the romans would

break into our home

and i would be hiding under the bed with

a knife

and just when they came to get me

messiah would rescue me at the last

moment

he didn't think we'd be spending our

time healing well

watching him heal and they'll never stop

the people come the more they hear about

it and we're just going to be doing this

the next five years

and we'll never get to the fighting part

eager to bring out that wooden sword of

yours are you

do you honestly not know what i'm

talking about

i guess i haven't had any expectations

probably why it's a little easier for me

i can remember as a little girl hearing

about how someone would save us someday

but

i don't remember much about it why is it

you expect a warrior

zechariah for i will gather all the

nations against jerusalem to battle

and the city will be captured then the

lord will go

forth and fight against those nations as

when he fights

on a day of battle on that day his feet

will stand on the mount of olives which

is in front of jerusalem

on the east yes yes yes the mount of

olives will be split in two from east to

west and half of it will move in all

this craziness but we don't even know

when this is going to be

if it's even in this lifetime it is what

i also do not understand isn't the

messiah supposed to come at a time when

all

is holy that's at least what you've been

telling me what is that problem

even a prophetic poem from the rabbis

not so long ago

and there should be no unrighteousness

in them

on his day for they shall all be holy

and their king shall be the lord messiah

this is why the pharisees do not think

he is the one mary you have to help

clean up the red quarter first

i don't think he's waiting for us to be

homey

and i think he's here because we can't

be holy without him

whoa that's good

the baptizer will want to use that

ah hey james i need you to help with

crowd control

people are bickering and getting

physical and uh

i can't help much in that department

yeah are you serious yes

i'm gonna have to use my sword on them

before the romans

so let's see

how are we doing well how do i could be

sad well are you serious

i'm more soft than i was yes yes you are

i thought you said you were good at this

i thought i was i can't get out of this

now

so what was everyone talking about ah

not much

just prophecy outgrowing fame messiah

healing disease instead of overthrowing

the romans

small topics like that well i'm not

sorry i missed it

i'm ready for the state to be over

what about out there anything happen in

your short shift no it's

same as all day

one thing that is annoying me though is

these people they are

believing in him and praising him and

don't get me wrong that's great but it's

because

he's healing them the samaritans yeah

that's pretty much what he said that's

all they needed

i know i just don't know how many of

them would believe in him

if he wasn't healing them

so i have to ask

i think i can guess i i have two

questions forgive me but i speak plainly

what is your melody forgive me i i don't

mean to offend

it's fine it's um a formal paralysis

it's it's caused problems since birth

it's almost time for evening meal

are you hungry

so then why i mean

why hasn't he healed you

how do you watch all these healings

today does it bother you

fair questions um

i'm still trying to figure out how i

feel about all of this

i mean i suppose one big thing is that i

haven't asked

why not

i don't know

if i had your uh

struggle and i was watching what was

happening today

i demand it i don't know if i should

it just doesn't feel right you know and

i suppose i've just been grateful that

he caught me to follow him in spite of

it but

it's never come up not even once i'm

just afraid that if i mention it to him

it will

he can change his mind about me or

something

i'm pretty sure he knows your situation

it's not like if you pointed out he'd be

surprised that's true

we thought you were coming tomorrow yeah

well some friends were

uh able to come with me earlier so they

dropped me off today

and they're seeing some family in the

area

you'll be with us for a little while yes

through the feast and

then we'll see oh steve shalom

what are you doing here with your son

now is

john all right i haven't spoken to him

in a while john is fine but he said the

time was now so

here i am trying to make myself useful

mary this is matthew he wasn't with us

at the wedding ah shalom matthew

welcome oh look let's find clothing

thank you what do you do i don't i

i he's a new student uh jesus called him

ah

lovely well i'm sure you're someone

special

so was today a very long day i saw a lot

of people

simon told me to come back here do we

know when jesus will be finished

we walked here from philippi this

morning and he hasn't stopped since then

he has always been a worker he gets that

from his father

both of them i suppose

speaking of work i see the food

you look exhausted i'm here to help

we'll have it already very very soon

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andrew i need a mental break do one of

your meaningless question games

they're not meaningless they're

interesting

and i've got one i've been thinking

about lately

what would you do for unlimited money or

what would you give up to have all the

money you could ever want

for the rest of your life meaning would

i do something

painful yes or crazy

would you run through the marketplace

with no clothes on screaming

of course not it'd be killed by a

soldier plus it would be a modest could

be a sin

fine something that wasn't a sin

would you give up your left hand if you

would be rich the rest of your life

maybe not a full hand but a couple of

fingers sure

what about love would you give up ever

getting married

i don't know simon is it worth it

absolutely but you'll never be so lucky

to find someone like eden so

take the money i've never had much money

my whole life

and i've been happy i don't expect we'll

have much money for as long as we're

following him

but you have had some money before yes

are you happier now or then ask matthew

john what that was a bad question

you brought up money matthew's had it we

have not

i feel better now i don't know if that

means happy

it's not polite to talk about personal

money just a question

i think about it sometimes

man i feel guilty for what

thinking about things i shouldn't

for wanting things i shouldn't care so

much about

sometimes i feel like

i'm living someone else's life

like

i look at myself from the outside

doesn't always feel like me

feels like someone who's

trying to live up to the heroes of our

history

like i have to do something great

but i know i'm not great

note even more now being with him

i understand

i feel like i need to not make any more

mistakes

how do you think i felt you must feel

that every day

no not anymore

he always reassured me and god always

made me feel like i

shouldn't be burdened

so how did you feel when that happened

when what happened his birth

even before that how did you know

when did you know who he was

i don't know we're all tired

do you really want to hear all that yes

yes

well

nothing about it was easy i can tell you

that

it wasn't in my hometown my mother

wasn't there

we had no midwife don't know if i'm

ready to give all the details

maybe some other time but

i do remember this when joseph handed

him to me

it was like nothing i expected

it was like everything i'd heard about

having a baby but

i thought this would be completely

different

what do you mean i had to clean him off

he was covered in

i will be polite he needed to be cleaned

and he was cold

and he was crying

and he needed my help

my help my teenager from nazareth

it actually made me think for just one

moment

is this really the son of god

and joseph later told me he briefly

thought the same thing

but we knew he was

i don't know what i expected

but he was crying and he needed me

and i wondered how long that would last

he doesn't need me anymore not since we

taught him how to walk

and eat

he hasn't needed me for a long time i

suppose

and after joseph passed he rest in peace

he grew up even quicker

and i wish i could say that made me

happy

of course as a jew i'm excited to see

everything he does for our people

and i'm proud of him

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but

as a mom

it makes me a little sad sometimes

so it's good to be with all of you for a

bit i can find ways to help

i'll take it

simon when you were just with him did it

seem it would

go for very long it's tough to turn

the line was dying down but

he won't send anyone away anyway so

we'll see

i'll go check on them

can i take your plate yes thank you

he doesn't know he lost his father

i lost mine several years ago

i'll have to ask him about that

is anyone else lost the parent

i'm sorry was it recent

no no it was when i was a little girl

it's painful sorry

thank you it was

i didn't fully understand it right away

but

eventually it made me really angry

and i left when i was young

left home trust everything

everything i

uh i try to stop acting like a jew

i try to stop being myself

and then later as

some of the people from our town

including some of you

knew about uh worse things happened

most of it is a blur

but i forgot so much of everything i

learned as a little girl

but now you can catch up

you all are so far ahead and you're so

good at all of this

we're not as good as you think

most of us but you were the one with

your nose in the writing still are

a little not as good as others

oh come on you can recite half of torah

if you had to

maybe maybe yeah maybe

still going

i couldn't do any more but they said

they've got it

i really want to be a good student i

don't think any of us went to bed

midrash or

did much study after school it's what's

so surprising about all this

thomas did you no i was in the family

business the day after i graduated

13 years old and i was preparing and

serving food at weddings

i was not a student at all believe me

yeah i wasn't even good at praying until

recently

i would get bored with it you know the

same thing over and over and

i learned to love it as i got older i

wasn't great at any of it when i was a

student

i wasn't either i didn't like all the

rules i never struggled with it

i do what i'm told yes i'm the same

i have always been a rule follower i

always love the

history the story so i always love the

rules too

simon

i had my moments

[Laughter]

one time when my parents were asleep

i had meat with cheese just to see what

i was missing

have you ever done that i'd feel too

guilty you feel guilty about everything

right after you were born you said sorry

to ima for causing her pain

well get the guilt i was sick for days i

haven't violated a single food rule

since

i tried pork once oh well we were

traveling and we were in a gentile

marketplace and

i just grabbed a piece really oh it was

marvelous

one time on the boats we were

approaching a shabbat sunset and

abba and john had finished their tasks

and i still had to put

my fish in the barrels because i had so

many no it's because you were going too

slow

because you're too careful no it was

because i had so many

okay so you have to put them away

obviously

before the sun sets or they'll rot the

next day and you can't clean them during

shabbat so

i started yelling to the others hey come

on help me

no they just laughed at me and walked

home

and i had to work so hard and so fast i

ended up spilling some of the fish back

in the water

but i finished just in time

and i was breathing so hard i vomited

on the shore i had to wait two whole

days to clean it up

oh sorry

i've grown to love being jewish and i've

grown to love following the law but

it can be exhausting following the law

or being jewish

both it always has been

even before the occupation yes but

aren't we used to it by now

hasn't it made us stronger

i don't get it if i'm honest

i don't know why god has allowed the

occupation

i'd love to ask him more about that

why this has been allowed for so long

it's hard to feel like the chosen people

i've been there but it's all worth it

now yes

the wait is over

what about you

what do you mean has it been

difficult for you all this time the

occupation

following jewish law my life has not

been easy

oh it hasn't what was more painful for

you

escaping roman persecution by working

for them or

escaping your guilt with all the money

and now you're catching up on torah

and wanting to follow the law why not

all of the sudden

why not all the other times you had the

chance simon no no john i want to know

mary had horrible trauma she didn't

choose all that happened to her

what's your excuse what do you want me

to say

i don't know what you want from me an

apology

what simon's not wrong

it could be more delicate about it but

you did choose to work for them

and you made my life even harder than it

already was

and you haven't apologized

none no no don't say it i don't want you

to apologize it doesn't matter what

would hear him say sorry dude i won't

forgive it anyway what keeps putting you

in authority

who are you to forgive or not to forgive

what you're on his side no

of course not but you've had your

problems too what about apologizing

for what you almost did to us with their

own didn't go through with it

i was trying to save my family's life

and i love you john but that's not

something you have to worry about when

zeb and salome are looking out for you

but you put me in a desperate position

where i did things i would never have

done otherwise

and i've repented for them and john and

james i am sorry but i didn't go through

with it

what is your excuse i was a successful

businessman and yet i was always behind

he wasn't your tax collector

quit defending him i want an answer hey

you're new

do you even know what it's like to be

jewish

to suffer for centuries and centuries

because of it but to still commit to it

to protect our heritage even though it

never stops being painful

because the one comfort we have is to

know that we're doing it together

that we're all suffering together but if

we just wait

a little longer if we hold tight just a

little more

we'll have rescue because we're chosen

all of us

and you betrayed that and you spit on it

i can't forgive it i'll never forgive it

all right

you said what you needed to say sit down

simon you sit down first

good night

oh

amen thank you

[Applause]

[Music]

ah

[Music]

you can blot on your hands

one more there we go i'm a mess

good

what would i do without your email

i'll get some sleep okay i'm so tired

[Music]

may

god of my ancestors that i lie down in

peace

and that i arise in peace

well um

i love that moment gets me every time

tonight really represents everything

that the chosen is about

in so many ways that i want to share

with you right now

um you know

this we've settled along to get used to

different

that this show is all about that jesus

said that in episode seven of season one

and we believe that that was true of

jesus's ministry

we believe that that's true of the show

itself everything about this show is

different we're the number one highest

crowdfunded media project of all time

we're the first ever multi-season show

about the life of jesus

the content itself is different how

we're showing the

jesus from different perspectives and

including these backstories and cultural

content and

the way that you watch the show is

different and what our partners at angel

studios did by creating this app

that is free and is instantly available

to everyone around the world with no

restrictions no subscription required

people can just for free get this app

and watch this show

that's different and we might just be

the first show in history

to put an episode out immediately after

the previous one and not

tell anyone i'm sure there's been

marathons before but not where we just

surprised you with an episode so i hope

that you appreciate that in fact i got

this text

from a friend named blake in michigan

who's been on the shelf since long

before it was cool

and he said my wife is in labor with our

son right now waiting to go to the

hospital and we're watching

thank you most important tv show in my

lifetime hope she holds on through

episode three

so blake i hope that you and your uh

your family are holding on and that you

were able to watch the whole episode and

see to the end

um you know i hope you picked up on a

few things in that episode

you know that like for example i one of

the things that i i really loved when

when this idea came was that mary was

talking about how she hasn't felt useful

in a while she hasn't felt like she

is needed by jesus anymore and that's a

very mom thing to feel

and uh and then at the end of course she

had an opportunity to be needed

and for maybe the first time in a while

and

needed in an important way because he

was had been doing such an important

work

one thing i want to also make sure that

is understood

is uh because i saw a few people in the

chat saying hey simon leave matthew

alone

simon's not wrong and andrew says that

andrew says those words simon's not

wrong he might not be delicate about it

at times

but you haven't apologized matthew did a

lot of very wrong

things to the disciples and to the

jewish people

and he's forgiven for that by jesus and

jesus called him but

matthew has some work to do as well to

bring restitution about some of this

stuff and so yes simon is harsh and

simon is temperamental

simon is passionate but simon's also

talking to someone who betrayed his

people

and their faith in many ways so how that

all plays

out over the next few episodes and over

the next couple seasons is going to be

really

interesting so i hope you pay attention

here's another thing that was really

unique about this episode that i hope

you noticed

the first 15 minutes first 15 minutes

were all

one shot and how that happened is really

again what the chosen is all about um

if you think about and by the way i'm

gonna in just a minute here i'm gonna

tell you about the next episode which is

not coming tonight don't get your hopes

up

episode 4 is not ready yet it's not done

yet so don't get your hopes up

but i will tell you about when it is

gonna be ready and uh and then more

about our come and see

uh program but um

when we decided to film the first 15

minutes of this episode in just

one shot we just thought it would be a

really interesting way to show real time

and to show

um the the activity and

i think there's something special about

one shot not cutting and not

slowing it down that just really makes

it feel alive and we just thought it

would be a really interesting artistic

thing to do and we knew it would be very

difficult

um you know i've never seen that i mean

most most

one-shots and movies that go for a long

time go for a few minutes a 15-minute

warner is what we call it

is very very rare if i i mean i don't

even know how many times it's happened

it's been extraordinarily where we said

look we're a different show let's go for

it it's going to be difficult

all the actors have to memorize all

their lines perfectly there's no

mess-ups allowed

because then you'd have to start over

you know so all the actors worked really

hard to prepare

and we went to shoot the scene that day

what we wanted to do is we wanted to

start early in the day

and rehearse it a bunch of times and

then we knew that the first couple takes

wouldn't work so we wanted to do a bunch

of rehearsals first

and then we just wanted to give

ourselves time so we gave ourselves the

whole day to do this shot

now typically in one day of filming

you're going to do about six to seven

pages of filming tops

and even that's pretty aggressive this

is 15 pages

okay but we knew if we all did it at

once in just one shot we might have a

chance to do that

but doing it in one shot is very

difficult so we're going to do it a few

times to kind of give us

the opportunity to not have to to not to

not lose it basically

so we did the first one shortly after

lunchtime and it didn't work

a few mistakes camera uh you know went

to the wrong person at the wrong time an

actor might have

stumbled on the line but we were we knew

that was just essentially rehearsal

so then we did the next one in a couple

hours and there was a couple mess up so

we just started over and then we did it

again but this time the sun was lowering

and the shadows were so strong that

we were seeing the camera and the camera

guy and the crew

on the shadows on the actors and so we

just stopped halfway through we said

this take is unusable because we had

a camera guy walking around and he had a

couple guys with him who were making

sure the focus was okay

excuse me and recording the sounds that

there's a guy walking around him with a

microphone and

we got a guy holding up a thing to make

sure that the lighting like

is bounced off the sun all that stuff to

just make sure that we're getting all

this

and so then we realized we had to wait

we had to wait until the sun was almost

down

so there would be no shadows and here's

what we knew we would only have one take

we knew that that was now putting in us

a position that we had no room for air

we couldn't do it again because once the

sun goes down tonight we're done with

so we knew we had a 15 to 20 minute

window to get this one shot

so we just had to wait for a few hours

and i remember going out into the field

by myself and just praying and just

saying okay god

this is your project and you have done

this to us so many times

you have taken us to the edge of the red

sea as my wife calls it my wife use

refers to these as red sea moments where

you get to the edge of the red sea and

there's literally nothing else you can

do

the philistines are coming and you have

no options you're done

the only option is if god parts the red

sea and does this miracle

and that's happened to us over and over

and over again and i said god i hope

this is one of those times

and if this is just to remind me to be

desperate for you i'm

reminded and please just give us favor

if you can

and just help everyone to be smart and

to make good decisions and to remember

their lines and

and for everything to go smoothly and

then it was out of my hands there's

nothing i could do

i'd already done all the work that i

could i had literally nothing to do but

just watch and watch with my producer

chris and we almost held hands

just like please please please through

the whole take so as the sun's going

down we do one take and early on one of

the actors

messes up a line in a profound way so we

had to start over

happens again second time now we have

literally only 15 minutes for the shot

and we're all just nervous i'm upset you

know because i'm like oh my gosh you

know this is it we have to do this

we calmed each other down we got through

it we said let's go

and then we did what you saw that was

all one take and i remember at the end

of it the sun literally went down

and you can see throughout the whole

scene the sun is going down that's what

makes it seem so beautiful is it's like

the sun is going down in the middle of

the shot and i remember it finally

finished in our camera guy who was

carrying around 60 pounds for 15 minutes

just holding him literally collapsed

sweat pouring off his face we all gave

him a round of applause

and i said i think we got it and i went

up to one of the actors to say thank you

for doing such a great job and i just

burst into tears

um because i was so exhausted from the

stress of it

but being reminded once again that

god was looking out for us and here's

the thing

that was the perfect shot if it would

have happened in the middle of the day

it wouldn't have looked nearly as good

in fact our cinematographer had said

i want us to get a shot in the afternoon

so that we know we have it but the best

shot will be at night

when the sun's going down in the evening

because that's when it's going to look

the best and that's when it actually

tells the story

of transitioning into night time and it

was perfect

and as usual god gave us no other

options so

that's how this that's how this show

works and i hope that that

that's not just a gimmick that only

works if it translates to you and that

if you

experience the beauty of the scene and

of the of what the disciples are talking

about

and what they're experiencing and how

they're all wrestling with this and

that's what the season is about is what

are the disciples gonna do

now that they're following jesus what

does that look like uh and it's hard

and it's confusing and it's different

from what they expected they're getting

used to different

and they're still working through some

of the things some of the pain of their

past

like simon and matthew and mary

magdalene

and james and john and there's still

tensions bubbling to the surface but as

they're bickering as they're fighting

what do they get reminded of jesus comes

out and what's he exhausted from why is

he sweating why does he have blood on

him

because he's been healing people all day

matthew 4 24 that's the title of the

episode

jesus went into syria and was just

healing groups of people who were coming

to see him

and what do the disciples think well

obviously they know this is what this is

all about and we just we're blowing it

and that's okay because they have a lot

to learn is stewie

so i hope this last uh this episode

blessed you episode four

is going to be a little while um

there's a lot of visual effects in it

there's a lot of audio things that have

to happen

um the music is done but there's a lot

of work that needs to be done and we're

working on episodes four

tonight when i get off this live stream

i'm gonna be working on episodes five

and six

i promised you that i would get them to

you as soon as they're ready which is

why you got episode three tonight

but that also means that they're not

gonna be episodes that are ready sooner

than they can we just finished filming a

month ago

so even the fact that you've seen three

episodes already is a miracle

so now we're gonna have to wait probably

about three or four weeks um i'm going

out to los angeles in a few weeks where

we'll finish up episodes

four five and six and they won't come

out all at once because then they still

have to be finalized but

that's what our plan is so you have now

three weeks to tell people to come and

see

this is a movement okay we are going to

get to a billion people you need to go

to thechosengifts.com

www.thechosengifts.com

and you can get all this come and see

gear for those of you who are outside

the united states

i promise you we are working on this and

in fact we're going to end up doing

shirts that say

come and see in your language we're

working on that now it's we

all of this is new to us we're creating

new technology we're creating

new ways of doing things and so it's

going to take some time and

so bear with us we are getting these

episodes translated as fast as humanly

possible

um in fact episodes one and two are

already translated with subtitles in

several languages

uh in the app uh you some devices you're

not able to cast

to with those but if you go to the

chosen dot tv uh you can watch on the

chosen dot tv but

uh and you can watch on some of the

devices with the subtitles or just your

phone so we're working on that

this is new technology so bear with us

please be patient we want to get this in

every language that we can

but uh you have now three weeks to tell

people to come and see and what are you

going to tell them about the app

because episode 4 is only going to be

available in the app it's not going to

be a live stream on youtube it's not

going to be a live stream on

facebook we will probably do a 15 minute

live stream just to kind of do a

pre-live stream special

um where we'll probably have some guests

and we'll talk about the show and then

we'll go over to the app

and that's where you will watch the show

okay episodes two and three right by the

way right now

have been installed in the app they are

there you don't have to watch the live

stream you can watch them without

me talking because i know you want to

shut dallas up and i know that's going

to be a hashtag hashtag shut dallas up

because you don't want me to talk so

much but as soon as we get these

seasons produced and funded uh you know

100 million

dollars to shut dallas up so 100 million

dollars does two things ones it helps us

reach

a billion people around the world two it

shuts me up

so i will shut up soon but either way

you can watch episodes two and three

right now in the app

without hearing me and you can rewind

and fast forward and all that other fun

stuff

uh if you want but episode four is only

going to be in the app we are building

our own platform and much like netflix

doesn't have their movies and shows on

other platforms um

and uh you know most most platforms you

know they're trying to build their own

platform and that's how they're going to

sustain a business long term

that's what we have to do as well and uh

we've the difference between us and all

these other platforms is that we're

completely free

uh completely free no subscription no

email address added asked for or

anything

it's all up to you you can watch it

totally free if you want so i hope that

that's okay but you have three weeks now

to get used to the app to ask for help

if you open the app and you're not sure

how to work it click the help button

they will help you

email support the chosen dot tv support

the chosen dot tv and they will help you

everyone is eager to make this as easy

of an experience for you as possible

i promise but you're going to have to

make those adjustments so

figure it out go to the fan club to ask

other people online

ask support they will help you but

episode 4 is only going to be on the app

and it's on you to spread the word

all right so keep that up keep telling

people to come and see

keep still this conversation started

we're going to reach a billion people

because you're going to be like philip

what did philip do in episode two he

went and found nathaniel

and he told nathaniel you've got to see

this guy and when nathaniel said what

are you talking about what good can come

from nazareth

and you're going to hear people say what

do you mean what can good can come from

christian media this

show isn't going to be any good and you

just say come and see just watch it's

free you don't have to do anything just

free

so if you hate it you can stop watching

but just give it an episode or two

you know it always takes an episode or

two for people to kind of get used to a

new show and learn who the characters

are

but then it's worth it so we're

partnering with you on this

thank you for bringing this to light

thank you for making this possible thank

you

for bringing me closer to god because of

your sacrifice and your servant heart

it means so much to me that we're

partnered and tonight was all about that

giving you the surprise episode three

you know having this relationship with

you we can we can do fun things like

that i'm sorry for those who left early

who didn't get to see episode three

tonight with you

but this is how we do it episode three

itself was a miracle

and that one shot and the things that

we're saying in these episodes and the

things we're saying to each other this

is all

part of a huge movement and god has

something to say to the world and my job

is to make sure that it gets said

and that i get out of the way and that's

where your cup where you come in so

remember

it's not your job to feed the five

thousand it's only to provide

the loaves and fish and you did that

tonight and you're continuing to do that

i'm bringing my loaves and fish and

together we'll watch god feed the five

thousand

thank you and good night

you