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The Chosen, the Biblical-Historical drama series, has featured many stories from the Old and New Testaments. However, Season 5 was certainly the most intense and emotionally-charged installment, which featured Jesus Christ's (Jonathan Roumie) Last Supper with his twelve apostles and his final moments in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was arrested.
Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Christ directly led The Chosen Season 5 in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus Christ had three mysterious visions. Each of these visions (taking inspiration from Biblical stories) culminated in a highly emotional finale that will echo in the show's future seasons.
Recently, The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins explained each of Jesus' three visions in the Garden of Gethsemane with The Direct and teased that they will play a bigger part in the show's upcoming seasons.
More on this in our story.
The Chosen’s creator peels back emotional layers from Christ's visions in the Garden of Gethsemane
The Chosen Season 5, aptly titled The Last Supper, featured some of the most emotional and important Biblical stories from Jesus Christ's life. Among them, the Garden of Gethsemane sequence was played out in the show's latter episodes, where Jesus spends His last moments before His arrest.
A significant site in Christianity, the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem is believed (by the Gospels) to be the site where Jesus Christ sat and prayed before His eventual arrest. The Chosen Season 5 featured a fictional and dramatized version of Christ's final moments, where He had three visions: Abraham & Isaac, Ezekiel & the valley of dry bones, and His earthly father, Joseph.
While each of these visions holds a symbolic meaning within the story, they were all related to hope. Here is how Dallas Jenkins explained each of these visions:
''I think the audience, if they think deeply about it, can understand that the three moments that Jesus has are all related to hope.''
Vision 1: Abraham & Isaac
The visions experienced by Christ are given to Him by God and are deeply rooted in moments of history. The first vision is of Abraham & Isaac, where Abraham was willing to sacrifice his own son, who was eventually spared by God at the last moment. This story instills hope in Christ, and He thinks, as Jenkins explained:
''Jesus is being sacrificed by his father. So he's saying, 'Hey, maybe just like Isaac, I could be spared,' which is true in the Gospels. He says, 'Can I be spared from this? I will do Your will, but if there's another way, please do it.''
Since Jesus is also being sacrificed by His father (God), He is asking to be spared in His final moments.
Vision 2: Ezekiel & the valley of dry bones
The second vision in The Chosen Season 5 is from the Old Testament, where prophet Ezekiel is given a vision of his death, and he asks God, 'Is resurrection possible from these dry bones?'. Explaining the second vision, Jenkins said:
''Ezekiel was asking, 'Can these bones live? Can there be resurrection from these dead bones?' And the answer, we don't show the answer in this episode, but there's a really beautiful moment in the book of Ezekiel where there's a there's a given answer.''
This vision alludes to The Chosen's further seasons and the eventual resurrection of Jesus Christ, one of the most important miracles in Christianity.
Vision 3: His earthly father, Joseph
Lastly, Jesus Christ has one of the most emotional visions in the Garden of Gethsemane, that of His earthly father, Joseph. After remembering His real father, ie, God, Christ remembers Joseph as a means of comfort in His final moments, as Jenkins explained:
''And then seeing his earthly father, Joseph, coming to comfort him and say, 'I'll be waiting for you,' and holding him and kissing him on the on the head. I think those are all just moments of hope and moments of comfort that Jesus was needing and wanting in his darkest hour."
While each of the visions added gravitas in Christ's final moments in the Garden of Gethsemane, they will also act as symbolic call-backs in The Chosen's future seasons.
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