0:00.0	This is the Bamal podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we continue our review of the chosen with a discussion on the controversial fifth episode of season two.
0:16.0	Oh goodness.
0:18.0	Controversy stuff.
0:20.0	And your Christians have to be so dumb.
0:24.0	Not a lot of controversy on our side, I don't think, but we'll see.
0:28.0	And there's plenty like, and this is, I think it's one of my favorite episodes in both seasons.
0:33.0	And it's kind of weird to say because there's some weird stuff in this episode.
0:37.0	All the demonic elements and the sensationalized drama type. But you know, we'll talk about it.
0:43.0	It's one of my favorite part, one of my favorite episodes for lots of reasons.
0:48.0	Okay. Well, let's fire that spoiler horn and get into it.
0:52.0	So episode starts off Mary's picking some fruit. She's saying a blessing. She's reciting Psalm 139, practicing the text that she's working on with Matthew and Rema.
1:07.0	And then some Roman soldiers come riding by on horses and Mary, Mary Pannex and drops her fruit. She kind of runs behind the tree and hides and nothing happens.
1:18.0	The soldiers don't even know she's there, but we see that she's got some internal struggle going on there.
1:25.0	Yeah, definitely like a PTSD type reaction.
1:28.0	And just the more that I grow and grow in my awareness of trauma and people that have experienced abuse, whatever her story was.
1:35.0	We talked about in season one, but you know, all those blanks weren't filled in dramatically.
1:40.0	But yeah, definitely appreciated the appreciates not the right word, but I was struck by her response and just moved by the daily.
1:57.0	Just struggle she has to live with. I'm sure.
1:59.0	So then we have the credits.
2:16.0	And then coming out of there, we have Schmule and Yanni and they're talking with Jesse, the man from the pool about his healing. And after a whole lot of prodding him, they finally decide, yeah, this has to be this has to be Jesus.
2:34.0	The particular Jesus that we tend to care about most. It's interesting. The comments that they made, they're like, there were tens of thousands of people here in Jerusalem for this festival.
2:47.0	There were thousands of people named Jesus. Like we need a little more information than that. Jesse, come on, tell us something.
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