Season 4 Episode 3 Bad Things Happen To Good People

[Dr. Shane]

This episode starts with King David morning the loss of his child with Bathsheba.  Then it transitions into Jesus eating at the home of Peter and discussing a sermon He is going to give.  The disciples are nervous because both Rome and the Pharisees are growing more uncomfortable with Jesus. As Jesus approaches the local synagogue He notices a blind man.  Here He performs the miracle of healing the blind man by putting mud on his eyes.  The producer of The Chosen mixes details from various healings into this story.  Thus many details are not as they appear in the Bible. The healing of the blind man, in this episode, then leads to the Pharisees getting upset and confronting Jesus.  A big crowd starts to get anxious and requesting another miracle.  Word of the gathering reaches Quintas, the Roman authority in the area. Quintas responds by going to the gathering himself. In an attempt to capture Jesus, Quintas kills Ramah. Jesus had escaped at this point, but returns to see Thomas morning the death of Ramah and demanding for Jesus to heal her.  Jesus responds by saying it wasn't her time.  The meaning to be understood is that raising someone from the dead was to occur just before the Passover when Jesus would be arrested and executed.  It was Lazarus who was raised from the dead because the timing was right.

One thing I think that the producer of The Chosen is trying to do is to show bad things happen to good people even when God is there and even when God is good.  Bad things happen because we live in a sinful world.  If God intervened each time to protect those faithful to Him, people would worship God out of selfish motives.  Earlier in Season 4 we saw John the Baptist executed and Jesus did nothing to save him.  Jesus called him the greatest prophet that ever lived.  In Season 3 we saw Jesus explain to Little James why He didn't want to heal him. This is also part of this theme that bad things happen to good people and that doesn't make God evil or hard.    Ramah was an added character. She is not a Biblical character. We know that many women followed Jesus but are only given a few names. It is likely that someone like Ramah was following Jesus but to be clear, the Ramah story like is a made-up and no part of it is Biblical.