Week 1 of 21 · John 1 · Thursday November 19
The Word Became Flesh
The eternal Word, who is God and made all things, became flesh to show us the Father and to take away the sin of the world as God’s Lamb. Some refuse Him, but everyone who receives Him becomes God’s child, and every man who comes to see Him goes and brings someone else.
“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.”John 1:14
MondayRead John 1 twice and mark itMon Nov 16
TuesdayStudy notes and the Observe questionsTue Nov 17
WednesdayInterpret, Weigh the Teachers and ApplyWed Nov 18
Thursday eveningTogether: the film, the worksheet, prayerThu Nov 19
Season 2, Episode 2 · “I Saw You”Philip finds Nathanael: “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” and “I saw you under the fig tree” (1:43–51).
Season 1, Episode 4 · “The Rock on Which It Is Built”John the Baptist calls Jesus “the Lamb of God,” and Andrew brings Simon to Jesus (1:28–42).
Read it against John 1
- The show ties Simon’s call to the miraculous catch of fish from Luke 5. In John 1:41–42, Andrew brings Simon to Jesus in Judea, near where John was baptizing, and Jesus renames him Cephas on the spot.
- Scripture never says what Nathanael was doing under the fig tree. The show invents a backstory for him. Ask: what does John want us to notice instead? (1:48–51)
- John 1:1–18 — the Word who was God and made all things — is the center of this chapter. A drama can show people meeting Jesus; it cannot show eternity. Let the text carry what the film cannot.
The Chosen is a drama, not Scripture. Watch it to picture the people and places, then test every scene by the text — “examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11). God’s Word is the truth; where the film differs, the Word wins.