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As I stated earlier.  Here is a short summary of the plot of episode one season one of "The Chosen" which will show how this is not your typical biblical show. 

Episode one of “The Chosen” begins with high up pharisee mucky-muck Nicodemus returning to his hometown of Capernaum Judea circa 30 AD in order to present a bunch of guest lectures at his Hebrew Alma Matter.  Suddenly he’s stopped by the local Capernaum Roman Magistrate Quintus.   Quintus needs a favor from Nicodemus. He wants Nicodemus to preach against local fishermen, like Simon son of Jonah who, after loosing big time at Capernaum Fight Club, has to go fishing even on the official Jewish day off known as the Sabbath to get money to pay off his sizable tax debt to Rome.  Nicodemus does such a good job urging Capernaum villagers to boycott sabbath caught tilapias one of Quintus’ underlings decides Nicodemus should branch out into exorcisms and help him deal with a situation in Capernaum’s red- light district.   Apparently, a succubus named Lilith is attacking some of the men who see her and is creating general havoc for everyone else.   Nicodemus is reluctant to do this but then this Roman centurion makes poor Nicodemus an offer he cannot refuse.   Nicodemus tries his best to get rid of this demon terrorizing the Capernaum red-light district but quickly realizes Linda Blair has a better chance of being greeted with flights of angels than this poor prostitute.  Needless to say, Nicodemus quickly goes into a funk as to why a high and mighty holy mucky-muck such as him couldn’t cast out a simple succubus.    Meanwhile Simon and his brother Andrew go to local Roman taxman Matthew to pay off their debt only to be told by Mathew their tax debt isn’t just large-it’s ginormous.   Before Andrew fears he’s about the be arrested for tax debt his big brother Simon name drops Quintus to Mathew and explains that Quintus has generously waived the tax debt for him and his brother for a year.   Taxman Mathew, knowing how Jews hate Romans and vice versa, is wondering how some petty fisherman like Simon knows big Roman mucky muck Quintus and naturally wants to verify this himself which he’ll have to do in person since telephone won’t be invented for another 1,846 years.   Simon & Andrew quickly run away from Mathew’s tax booth and head into the local Capernaum pub.   Andrew asks his brother “What gives?” and Simon explains part of the reason why he and Andrew’s fishing nets have been empty lately is a big time fishing conglomerate Zebedee & Sons have been hauling everything with gills out of the Sea of Galilee in their football field sized nets and doing it all while everyone else is sitting down to Sabbath dinner.  Needless to say Simon wants to stick it to this corporate man and traded this merchant fleet for his and his brother’s tax debt.  Andrew is pissed at Simon because even though Zeb & Sons are ruining their livelihood, they’re still Jews and Jews don’t snitch on their fellow Jews to the dreaded Romans. 

Also, coincidentally in the same Capernaum pub, is poor prostitute Lilith.  Lilith knows she’s a horrible succubus and contemplates throwing herself off a cliff to end all of the torment.  However, before she takes the plunge to her death she decided she needed a last drink.  She’s about to chug her cheap Galilean wine down when a stranger grabs her hand and says “That is not for you.”  Lilith gets the creeps from this strange man and she decides its best to get away from him.  However, the strange man follows and then promptly calls her by her real name-Mary of Magdala.  Furthermore, he starts quoting a favorite bible verse Mary’s father used to say to her all the time when she was a little girl before he died of some ancient plague.  Suddenly the mysterious man is grabbing her and the evil demon is GONE!