Russell Brand Jokes That This Bible Verse Means ’15 More Season of THE CHOSEN’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Want a dozen more seasons of THE CHOSEN? Russell Brand thinks it could happen, based on this Bible verse.
“I don’t think Jesus Christ could have been any clearer that He’d come for broken people, people that were cast out, people that were on the margins,” he said in a video posted to his X account. “It seemed like He was taking great pleasure in provoking people.”
Brand then began speaking about the tax collectors of that time sitting in the markets, “like in THE CHOSEN.”
“By the way, just wanted to let you know, I’m not getting all of my Christian information from THE CHOSEN,” Brand joked. “I’ve also got a children’s Bible.”
The comedian talked about how there are some creative liberties taken in the show but pointed to a verse at the end of the book of John that reads, “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written” (John 21:25).
“And if we were to write down everything, it could fill 15 seasons of THE CHOSEN!” Brand joked.
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Brand recently began his faith journey and has been sharing the process online with his social media followers, telling them in a video, “I heard yesterday in church that even when I can’t feel God, God is working on me. God is working me into the shape that He needs me to be.”
In a post on X, Brand wrote, “It’s been a big change. Not that I’ve entirely changed as a person, of course I haven’t, but I’ve taken on a lot of new concepts and it changes you to accept that it’s not like you’re in a game show and by doing really, really good things you can get redeemed.”
“No, repentance, to repent, means that you have to continually change and acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself,” he continued. “That I need to surrender myself to an ever-present eternal and accessible Jesus. That mercy is something that’s been given to me, been granted to me, that I live with through love, not something that I can sort of win or achieve by doing good deeds.”
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