Season 1, Episode 6 - Indescribable Compassion

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Episode 6 of The Chosen shows Jesus stepping further into His ministry, healing the broken and challenging expectations. This episode balances Jesus, fully human and fully divine. 

This episode really brings home what outcast lepers were and how, where there should be compassion, there was mostly fear. The desperation of the leper is so heart-wrenching. He is shunned, feared, and left to suffer alone. But then, Jesus does the unthinkable ... He touches him. In a world where the unclean were avoided at all costs, Jesus chooses connection over fear. How could the Messiah do something to make Himself so unclean? It reminds us that Jesus doesn’t hesitate to enter our brokenness and restore us.

We get more of Matthew and Nicodemus, each trying to figure out the legitimacy of what they are witnessing and what it means ... could this possibly be the Messiah?

My favorite part of this episode is the gathering at Zebedee's house of those who've come to listen to Jesus. We see Abigail and Joshua, two of the children from episode 3, sitting on the roof listening and Matthew joining them.  This is also where the paralytic is lowered through the roof to be healed. Most of the Pharisees and other religious leaders are not pleased. Jesus preaches, gathers followers, and moves forward with unwavering purpose.

Episode 6 is a reminder that Jesus sees beyond what the world sees. He touches the untouchable, calls the unexpected, and invites us all into something greater. 

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