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.
Episode 4 - Andrew, John, James and Simon Peter are called. This episode is focused on Simon Peter's dilemma with his taxes and the Roman ruler Quintus. It is all embellishment until the end of the episode. The writers of this series are to be commended for inventing these stories which make the Apostles real people with real issues. Unfortunately, this episode contradicts the Bible, specifically Luke 5:10 which states that Simon Peter and the Zebedees were partners, so Simon Peter would not make the deal with Rome as depicted in the narrative here.
Biblical content in this episode; 5% Luke 5:1-11.