There’s something HIDDEN In The Chosen Season 4 Episode One! 

I had not "planned" to be personally convicted by The Chosen's portrayal of Judas. So loving, so tender, so real, so TRUE, this scene. I love how you're bringing out the lessons we can get from this simple exchange over laundry. Oh how I wish I had learned these lessons back when I was a baby Christian in college. It's taken me 44 years to learn some of these lessons, THE HARD WAY. Oh how God has had to thrash me over rocks to get me to leave some things behind. I thought I was so smart, so talented, and had such an agenda about how God ought to use my gifts and skills. As Nathanael said in his first episode, HUBRIS.

A quick comment on last night's broadcast: I found no problem at all in how the actress portraying Elizabeth handled her roll. Interpreting a first-time mother AND senior citizen was surely a unique challenge!

That's crazy how you found those 3 notes of music for Judas along with the coins. Thanks for sharing

"Still dirty, Judas" -- SO symbolic! Masterful scene, packed with foreshadowing and metaphors.

If my memory is correct Judas was telling his sister about joining Jesus, he told her not everything was about money, his sister said something like “it’s always about money with you.”

Judas had no interest in becoming a "doer" of Yeshua's words, he wanted to manage Him according to his own beliefs (he wanted Yeshua to become a doer of HIS words instead). Reminds me of satan telling Yeshua what he could give Him if He left His Divine mission and instead followed him. 😐

The 'Laundry scene' - thanks Brandon! I totally missed the deeper meaning here! I wondered how they would show Judas going his own way.

Judas attitude reminds of the scripture that says “These people praise me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” When he first expressed his desire to be a disciple, Jesus reminded Judas discussed the meaning of name “God be praised. “ He then emphasized that was praising with the hands then He asked him “are you willing to do hard things?”

This is what i noticed at the Sermon on the Mount: Judus came to Jesus and asked to join the group. All the others, Jesus, went to them and chose them. I immediately thought this.

I saw Season 4 in the theaters and I was kind of focusing on the John the Baptist arc in E1. I knew that there was more meaning to this scene but couldn’t process it. Thanks for breaking this down and this is why it’s worth rewatching the season. A lot is missed otherwise. I am grateful that everyone can now enjoy this magnificent season. May God Bless you all 🙏🏻

Washing the dirt out of clothes also symbolizes purifying the soul. "Glowing white robes" show up in the Bible several times for saints, Christ, angels, etc.

I love that out of everyone, Simon the Zealot is the one who's brcoming the most wise and mature one. I think him being the oldest (at 40) certainly helps him to understand Jesus's teachings, and hes alresdy shifted bis life immensely when he joined the zealots thst he already knows how to adapt to another one.

With the notes from Judas's theme, notice how it clashes with the underlying soft rising notes. These notes played earlier in the scene, but It is almost as if Judas's notes are intentionally louder and heading in a different direction.

Did you notice Judas said “Kingdom of the Messiah” and NOT the “Kingdom of God”? It’s not about God for Judas - it’s about an earthly kingdom. Funny, physical expectations haven’t really changed all that much in 2,000 years. People still look for physical things much more than spiritual things even though Jesus made it clear to the woman at the well - spirit and truth. Love your insights, Brandon! Especially hearing Judas’ tune!

I'm so happy that Season 4 is starting to stream. Now that I'm seeing the episodes I can start watching deep dives into these episodes without worrying about spoilers!

I love how you explain things. You are so much into detail. That is really a beautiful gift.😃💯💯 Yes he does. he's very Update

What a powerful metaphor! I so love the musical themes throughout the entire series! Thank you, Brandon!

I think it's a "rattle", like from a snake and it shows the influence of the devil in Judas' thoughts as he knows Jesus is God,but chooses to do things his way out of pride.

How do you discover all this? I'm glad we have you- it goes right over my head!

Brandon, you talked about these musical themes that keep showing up with Judas. "Leitmotif" is the term used in music (as well as literature) for themes that show up again around certain characters (generally speaking, also works for settings, etc). Richard Wagner popularized (and arguably created) Leitmotif with his popular opera, "Der Ring des Nibelungen". One of the most well known pieces is "Die Walküre" or we call it "The Ride of the Valkyries" in English. Funnily enough, this piece actually has been featured as Leitmotif in pop culture all the way from old school Loony Tunes to current Tiktoks. (And obviously inspo for LOTR, both the author and the film maker!) Anywayssss, just some useless information that I carry around in my brain that kind of relates 😂

I pray and ask you too to pray for my husband. We have been married for 45 yrs. I believed that he was a good Christian man b4 we married, but totally shifted as we married. Now that I WATCH ❤ The Chosen, he gets so upset and says you and your Jesus!! I REALLY don’t know what to do, but pray……😢

Thank you for this one. It's helping me on my own struggles in belief. I'm a born again Christian and I'm having growing pains. Praise Jesus 🙏

Wow wow wow this scene is amazing I’m a bible and Chosen nerd but I have to be honest this one flew over me I was thinking why are they wasting time on laundry! Probably because I was eager to get to the John the Baptizer parts then I listened to the writers explaining and it became clear and now you have done this great deep dive I understand this scene is amazing beyond words absolutely excellent what seemed to be so banal is truely brilliant Thanks a lot Brandon x

A small thanks for all of your content. Met you and Vanessa at ChosenCon last year, tou are such nice people...just wanted to support you in a small way!

reading the bible it's easy to disconnect from Judas. We have hindsight that the disciples didn't have. I see a lot of myself in all the disciple's doubts and failures, especially Judas. It's very convicting.

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Oh, the 30 coins!! I wouldn't have gotten that! You're right - it's brilliant! Thank you, Brandon.

Great job Brandon, was going down the same track while watching it last night for the 3rd time. Also noticed the use of the word "saturate", and going back to "the source water"...such an excellent scene by great writers who understand the Christian life and yet from a purely storytelling perspective also expand characterization in the narrative! Did not notice the music and coins, fantastic point!

Really love the breakdown of these videos, Brandon! But I really love the music insight as well! Super cool! 😎

I’m going to direct biblical films like The Chosen someday in the near future. I can’t wait to start film making just to see your reaction and breakdowns 😂

I remember people complaining that Judas was too likable in season 3. Now in early season 4 he is definitely not likable. We can also see the cracks starting to form that will lead to his ultimate demise. I love how you point out all the times Jesus is trying to instill in Judas the right lessons, and we see how he kept missing it because he refused to see the forest through the trees. He truly loved for Judas, but he just would not…

This is your best sleuthing yet!!

Incredible insight! 😊

This resonates with "Not what you were" from last season, except Judas still is.

Thanks, Brandon. I enjoyed your running through this in detail. Also, now that you've pointed out what they did with the music, I'm wondering how I hadn't noticed that before!

Thank you Brandon. I loved how you unpacked the metaphors in this scene. It gave me a lot to ponder.

Very insightful, thank you. I agree Judas is to prideful to follow the teaching of Jesus and is trying to manipulate Jesus to do what he thinks should happen, plus he can't leave his love of money behind which is his whole reason he wants Jesus to be a king thinking he will prosper as a follower.

I didn't realize the coins in the music til Brandon said it! 😁 So cool! 😎 Love it! 😍

Thank you for deep dives. I am so glad the Chosen is streaming so we can be a sleuth family again!!!!

Verrrry interesting point that washing the clothes, leaving the dirt behind is a reflection of what Judas needs to do in his heart! Makes me think about what dirt I need to wash out of my own laundry… Wow, also a fantastic point about Judas’ music changing!

Separating the wheat from the tares”! Only Yeshua will be the one to do that! If you go back to the beginning of The Chosen, Yeshua talks about this theme… Very cool deep-dive 😎 Brandon!

But Judas was NOT physically…… you know……fit. He was physically weak.

Simon Z has come a long way. He has a much better understanding of who Jesus is and what he came to do now than he did earlier. Earlier in the show his idea of the nature of Jesus' ministry was much closer to Judas' idea of it now. But he has watched and learned. You can hear it when he speaks. You're right, that is why Jesus paired them together, hoping that Judas will learn something.

Great writing! And good sleuthing Brandon in the coins sound.

I am impressed with your attention to detail. 👏👏👏

You really bring clarity to these scenes,, thank you The Chosen Sleuth 💯

I really enjoyed this scene! It was so well written and in step with what we've come to expect from Ryan Tyler & Dallas. The metaphor was brilliantly layered.

"I'm going to do it MY way, not Jesus's way." That's exactly what Cain said by offering vegetables. That's what Nimrod said, when he built the tower in Babel. That's what Constantine did when he nominally accepted Christ as the Son of God. It's called "Designer Religion." It was done frequently in the time of the prophets--slipping again and again and again and again into idolatry. Designer Religion. The Jews were familiar with this--many pagan influences caused Hellenistic Jews, and other off-shoots, and sects, like Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots and other factions. My question is, after you read Revelation 3 about the future of the churches, how can we not see that New Testament Christians are doing the very same thing! The 1,260 days between the hand-off of all political and civil power from the pagan Roman emperor to the Bishop of Rome until the Pope was arrested in 1798 by General Berthier (under orders from Napoleon) and he died there. In the meantime, the Reformation started and people started reading the Bible for themselves, the leaders had their own ideas of what the Bible taught, and the Protestant churches split--Lutherans, Wesleyans, those who followed Zwingli, Huss and others. In the Great Revival after the war of 1812, even more different doctrines and denominations splintered off. In the latter 19th century, it got worse and more convoluted. So how arrogant are we today to think we're not following God as we should, and we have our own Designer Religions that won't end well. We really need to read the Bible for ourselves and see what God is really trying to teach us--The Bible interprets itself if you read it carefully and pay attention. God needs no help from us to interpret. We just need to read the whole thing in context and not stop at one or two verses at a time. It's never done that way in the Bible.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. ~ Isaiah 55:8

Thanks! So interesting!

Judas didn’t have a true conversion. He was caught up in the emotional moment of the events at hand.

New subscriber! I've seen you pop up on my YT feed, but this is the first video I've watched, and it was brilliant!

Wow! Wow! Wow! Love the detail you give us! I hope in future episodes, after the betrayal, some of the apostles don’t take Judas’ decisions as their own failure of not making him understand. That would be horrible. After being w the group for several years I cannot imagine what they all felt when that happened. Bc of this video this was definitely my favorite scene in episode 1. The coin purse sounds like it shakes and falls. Amazing catch!! Love it!

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Brandon have to say that you look like a child at Christmas. You've been counting down the days to get started on Season 4. Happy days😂😂

Right! That first scene included many of the gospels compacted into one conversation! it was great!

Would Judas’s feelings be congruent to a small church throwing over twenty-thousand dollars at BETTER air-conditioning? Just curious.

I'm really glad for the clarification you have given with this scene! Thank you! And, even today...sometimes we still don't "get it"!

I just noticed, that when discussing when Jesus fed the 5,000, the reason He did not charge a fee, or even a donation, was a symbolic metaphor for Jesus' offering of salvation: it is free, without cost, and be fed to being full with all you want or need, with plenty left over. I thought that even though Judas was a businessman, he was a bit skeezy; a scheister. As Simon rightly said to Judas, he was smart, but not wise. Wisdom comes only from God.

I think it is awesome you shared this. When I saw this scene in the theater, I came home and told others exactly what you talked about. It was so full of scriptural teachings from the word-parables come to life so to speak. 😊. 🖖🏼✌🏼

That was great!! Thank you for breaking it down. Makes me see things that I had not seen before. Appreciate your channel. ❤

Please enlighten me on the scene where Judas was presenting to Simon the Zealot the percentage % of collection they could have in the feeding of the 5,000. He mentioned the place where the feeding of the 5,000 was held and he said "DECAPOLIS" instead of Bethsaida. Decapolis is the place where the feeding of the "4,000" was held. Do the editing department of the Chosen missed or overlooked this?

DETAIL: At the very beginning of this conversation, Judas confessed to "Z" that he sold his shares of the family business to follow Jesus and was left with nothing. A glance into his materialistic heart, considering he was the "keeper of the purse" and John's gospel tells us he used to help himself out of it. He obviously regretted his current lifestyle. So, the 30 pieces of silver would sound like "compensation" for "time wasted" with Jesus, since he didn't get what he hoped for and was now a pauper.

Hi Brandon!! In watching this scene, I thought back to season three when Judas was talking to his sister, when she expressed doubts about him following Jesus. I wonder if they will get back to her after Judas’s betrayal of Jesus & his eminent suicide. She’s going to be devastated & I wonder if she will renounce Jesus as well!! It will be interesting to see if this happens in future episodes! Thanks for your deep dives! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the next episodes!😍😍😍🙏🙏🙏

Really good analysis. However, the who laundry detergent ingredient list is not believable. I do historical spinning. In fact told Dallas in his very first mini Christmas show not to use knitting as knitting was not until 15th century. Weaving and a thing called sprang were to make textiles. He responded to me. Anyways, historically stale urine was used to scour textiles. Yes, old urine collected and let sitting for weeks. Concentrates the ammonia. Bleach and grease remover. Spinners used it to get oils out of yarn. Weavers used it to finish the cloth. Not saying it was the only way to clean clothes but is a very well established rudimentary cleaning solution. Lye based soaps required spent wood ash. However, maybe you can tell me what fuel was used for cooking? Isnt wood very rare in Israel? Like too rare for burning? What do you know about this topic?

Thanks for breaking down this metaphor so well. I caught some of this but didn’t catch all of it. This is why you are The Sleuth!

The land is much further away across the water when looking out from Capernaum. You can see the Golan Heights from there. Never realized there were special notes for Judas or anyone else until now. Now I will probably have to re-watch the series and pay special attention to the music. LOL , yeah Judas as well as all the disciples are about to have a very rocky road ahead, as Jesus will really challenge everyone with some of the comments he will make. Very true comments, but also very hard to understand. I must say the 'thank you' by John was awesome! That was brilliantly done!

Brandon, this episode was mind blowing!! My husband and I both got so much out of this video. Wonderful insights!

Judas is so thick and so superficial. He was all about money and maximizing funds. His character just makes me irritated

Yes, Judas wasn't chosen, he asked Jesus to join the group; unlike the others that were asked by Jesus to come follow me...

One other thing. I don’t know if this has been mentioned or not. Joanna was praying the Lord’s Prayer in King James English. A stylistic choice or a mistake? I believe this is the first time that King James English was used in the series.

Every time I see the scene where they’re why washing their clothes, I can’t help but think those clothes aren’t gonna be lasting too long if they’re slammed on the rocks like that. (I guess that’s the Martha coming out with me.)

Love this channel ❤. Really like how you run all thru scripture. Thank you.

Noice insight on the coins in the music!! Now I'm going to be listening for Judas' theme. This was a wonderful breakdown, Brandon! 🩵🙏🏻

Woahhhh! The coins in the music! I definitely missed that! Thanks for pointing it out.

I’m so going to pay attention to Judas theme now! Love the add of the coins sound!!

Did you notice in season 1 , when Mary Magdalene went to the bar , Judas was getting out of the bar , even touching her with his shoulder?

Brendan, I have to say I must not be as musically inclined as you are because I never noticed it. I know you have been talked about it for a while, but it wasn't till this video that you pointed it out for me to hear it. I understanding what you're saying that it sets the tone. I guess in my "vision" i look at the visual esthetics and what is being said. I do love how to break down all these episodes. Thank you!!!

Thanks for the insight of the many details and even the analysis of the "Judas theme".

Brandon I live in the UK but when I tried to donate monthly it wouldn't let me subscribe 😢

This is sad. I tried many times to. Open & watch the Season 4 on the App but not happening.

I hope these comments and points of views don't mislead the idea of the show, which is ain't to substitute the Bible

But you weren’t there 2000 years ago so how do you know what the sea of Galilee looked like?

I love your pointing out that the "coins" sound is being incorporated into Judas's theme. I think you're probably on more of the right track as far as the composer's intentions than I am, but the first thought I add when I heard that was the rattle of a snake's tail. Foreshadowing Judas's coming betrayal of Jesus influenced by the Deceiver who often appears in the Hebrew Bible as a snake/scaled dragon creature. Loved this video! Thanks, Brandon!

Judas is lazy and wants everyone else to do the things. Judas never gets it.

THANKS! GREAT ANALYSIS.

In my opinion, this scene was too long, almost boring.

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Hello again. Watching 2nd time. Della W. Here

1:53 My basis is the way they're listed in the Gospels

So Judas was like an entitled narcissistic?!

Main ingredient in detergent is protein. Was then and now.

Dell W. Here Judas was a spoiled guy in my eyes.

How do you know it was coins making that sound in Judas' theme? That's genius indeed!!! At first I thought it was a rattlesnake 😅

The biggest thing to remember is that in the show, Jesus called all his followers to follow him except Judas. Judas asked Jesus.

Oh MY GOSH…. ANOTHER HIDDEN MEANING IN THE CHOSEN channel………. originality has reached a new level of low.

You are back into your element. ❤

This was my favorite scene too! iris

The silver coins… brilliant.

Great recap and explanation.