THE CHOSEN: Nicodemus, the Perplexed, Being ‘Born Again,’ and John 3:16
There was a time not that long ago in America when any time you turned on the TV to watch a college game on Saturday or a professional contest on Sunday, you would see a sign in the grandstands behind the goal post saying “John 3:16.”
“Born again?”
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not die but shall have eternal life.”
There is a wonderful scene in “The Chosen” in which Nicodemus, the “Teacher of Israel” who is deeply perplexed by and yet drawn to Jesus for reasons he doesn’t understand, meets with Him at night.
As “The Chosen” executive producer Dallas Jenkins explains, this particular scene captures the profound impact that the third chapter of John continues to have on so many millions of people around the world, but does so in an intensely human way: