The Chosen - Third Season

Alphaeus bar Jehoram?

Yes.

- You are 20 days past your deadline

for this quarter's tribute.

Your collector has transferred your case to the Roman office.

Are you able to pay your tribute penalty now?

- I filed an extension in the month of--

- I'll take that as a no.

By decree of Quintus, honorable Praetor of Capernaum,

I will remand you into custody.

- I'm very sorry, I didn't realize--

Turn around.

- Sir, I didn't realize.

May I request an extension of just five days?

Alphaeus?

Who is it?

- Everything's fine, Elisheva!

Please, I beg you...

Adonai in heaven.

He's not here.

I can settle this, Lucius.

There's actually been a mistake.

What do you mean?

You told me to--

- I am aware, but...

I've realized the timelines were miscalculated.

I will clear it up, thank you.

- You... miscalculated?

- I received inaccurate information,

and I--it's being corrected right now.

I will handle this,

it would be best if you went to our next house,

and I will meet you at the booth in one hour.

Are you...

- It isn't prudent to discuss this now, Abba,

we don't have much--

- First the shame of your choice...

and now you are actually my collector?

ELISHEVA - Matthew?

What are you doing here?

- Your son is our publicanus.

- Matthew, no!!

- He sent a soldier to your home.

- I'm sorry, I didn't want you to know,

I didn't choose this district.

- You chose this job!

The Romans never forced you into it,

you chose to apply, you chose to betray--

- I chose a secure future.

- You are called to trust in Adonai

with all your heart,

and not lean on your own understanding.

I have trusted!

Can you name one thing Adonai has done for our people...

in a hundred years?

Five hundred?

Matthew.

- A traitor and a blasphemer.

Well.

You owe your government two months of tribute.

- I will bring in a payment by the end of the week.

- You've missed two payments.

I was hoping Lucius could convince you,

but I will no longer protect you.

- I don't want your protection.

- Then you have 24 hours, Abba.

- Don't call me "Abba."

- Alphaeus, please.

What?

- Elli, cover the windows, put on your veil.

We will sit shiva for seven days.

I have no son.

You have heard that it was said to those of old,

"You shall not murder;

and whomever murders will be liable to judgment."

But I say to you,

everyone who is angry with his brother

will be liable to judgment.

So if you are offering your gift at the altar,

and there remember that your brother

has something against you,

leave your gift there before the altar and go.

First be reconciled to your brother,

and then come and offer your gift.

Therefore, I tell you,

do not be anxious about your life...

what you will eat or what you will drink,

nor about your body, what you will put on.

Is not life more than food...

and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds of the air:

they neither sow nor reap

nor gather into barns,

yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not of more value than they?

And which of you by being anxious

can add a single hour to his span of life?

Therefore do not be anxious, saying,

"What shall we eat?"

"What shall we drink?"

or "What shall we wear?"

For the Gentiles seek all these things,

and your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

But seek first the kingdom of God

and His righteousness,

and all these things will be added to you.

So whatever you wish that others would do to you,

do also to them,

for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Judge not, that you be not judged.

How's He doing?

With the sermon?

The words are the same as written, but...

- But now He's saying them.

- Yes.

- You have heard that it was said,

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

But I say to you,

Do not resist the one who is evil.

And if anyone should slap you on your right cheek,

turn and give him the other one also.

And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic,

let him have your cloak as well.

You have heard that it was said,

"You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy."

But I say to you,

Love your enemies,

and pray for those who persecute you,

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.

How can you say to your brother,

"Let me--"

Consider the lilies of the field,

how they grow:

they neither toil nor spin,

yet I tell you--

Why do you see the speck

that is in your brother's eye

but do not notice the log in your own eye?

Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

Pray then like this:

"Our Father in heaven...

hallowed be Your name."

And if anyone should force you to go one mile,

go with him two miles.

"Your kingdom come, Your will be done,

"on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread--"

Give to the one who begs from you.

"--and forgive us our debts,

"as we also have forgiven our debtors.

"And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil."

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth...

where moth and rust destroy

and thieves break in and steal,

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

where neither moth nor rust destroys

and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is,

there your heart will be also.

Everyone who hears these words of mine

and does not do them

will be like a foolish man

who built his house on the sand.

And the rain fell,

and the floods came,

and the winds blew and beat against that house,

and it fell,

and great was the fall of it.

And everyone who hears these words of mine

and does them

will be like a wise man

who built his house on the rock.

And the rain fell,

and the floods came,

and the winds blew and beat on that house,

but it did not fall ,

because it had been founded on the rock.

You ever hear anything like that?

Not that kind of authority.

He spoke with actual authority.

His own, not from someone else.

- Yes, almost above the law.

Shhh!

Consider the lilies, He said!

How they neither toil nor spin--

--Yet I tell you,

even Solomon in all his glory--

- --was not like one of these.