I've 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 over the 40 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 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 3, Episode 7 - Decapolis. This episode was nearly 100% embellishment not found in the Bible except for the deaf mute man being healed. The Decapolis is mentioned 3 times in the Scriptures, two of those were just statements of where the message was proclaimed with no detail. The third was connected to the deaf mute man who Jesus healed. No mention of any controversies. That said, the portrayals of the followers of Jesus interacting with eachother are well written and help us to sense the real life issues they must have dealt with even though they are not in the Bible account. So, other than the recurring issues I stated in previous episodes; the names of Christ and his Father as well as the dress and grooming, this was an interesting episode.
Biblical content in this episode; 2%. Mark 7:31-37.