When Catholic Actor and Protestant Director Disagree – The Chosen

Come to my North American tour this November: https://www.alexoconnor.com/p/tour.

I like how Dallas is struggling to avoid "passion"-related words when talking about the Passion. Then I thought he was almost going to use the term "a hill I would die on".

It is NOT true that the Bible is clear that Jesus had brothers or that “there was a word for cousins.” Hebrew and Aramaic did NOT have words for cousins or kinsmen. Greek DID have “cousin” but in the Septuagint, the Greek always respected the original “brothers” (such as when Abraham and Lot were described in Greek as “brothers” even though Lot is his nephew (“brother’s son”). Plus, the Bible tells us that two of the “brothers” of Jesus are “James and Joses” and we are told who their mother is — the other Mary “the mother of James and Joses.” This is likely Joseph’s brother’s sons, Jesus’s cousins, which explains why there are so many kids named and yet no other children are EVER mentioned with them when Jesus is found in the temple and Mary is never called “the mother of Jesus AND..” anyone else. Further, Jesus entrusts his mother to the care of the apostle John at his death, which would have been literally unthinkable, to take his brothers’ mother away when they had a duty to care for her. This only makes sense if she has no one else to care for her. Thus this is totally a Biblical belief and explains why even the early reformers like Luther couldn’t believe anyone could question it. Also see what “Against Helvidius” has to say in the earliest centuries of the church! It is pretty angry that anyone could suggest she had other children.

For over 1,700 years—from the Apostles' immediate students like Polycarp, down through early martyrs, Church Fathers, and even Protestant Reformers like Luther and Calvin—the undivided Church unanimously held that Mary remained ever-virgin and Jesus had no biological siblings. The claim that Jesus had blood brothers only gained traction in the 1800s through German theological liberalism, ignoring both apostolic tradition and strict biblical exegesis. As St. Jerome definitively proved in 383 AD (Against Helvidius), the Greek word "brother" (adelphos) reflects Hebrew idiom, spanning biological brothers, kinsmen, and cousins. Scripturally, the Gospels explicitly map this family tree at the Cross: Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 identify James and Joseph—the named "brothers" of Jesus in Matthew 13:55—as the biological sons of a different Mary (the wife of Clopas and relative of the Virgin Mary, John 19:25). Furthermore, terms like "firstborn" (Luke 2:7) and "until" (Matthew 1:25) denote legal rights and milestones, not subsequent children, as seen when God promises Jacob in Genesis 28:15, "I will not leave you until I have done what I promised." Rejecting Mary’s perpetual virginity doesn't just counter ancient Catholic dogma; it dismisses the historical consensus of the early martyrs and the clear cross-textual evidence of Scripture itself.

Marian teachings are dogma though aren't they?

Great questions!

He would be false. Mary was a Perpetual Virgin. Any half brothers would have been Joseph's. He was an older man, Mary was a young woman.

The Ark of the Covenant, which carried the handwriting of God, wiped out and vaporized people who came near it.
Mary is the living Ark of the Covenant; she carried the flesh of God. Do you think she was contaminated?
Listen: when Jesus said, 'If you put new wine into old wineskins, the wineskins burst; and when you sew a new piece of cloth onto an old garment, the patch tears away,' He was speaking on several levels. One meaning refers to His coming into the world through His mother.
Whenever Jesus calls Himself 'Son of Man' instead of 'Son of God,' He is honoring His mother. Many fail to recognize this significance.

9:58 PARDON??!!! LDS is by far not a Christian tradition. What ignorance!

The craziest deviation from Scripture I have see in "The Chosen" was in Season 5 when there was no presentation of the ONE clear reason that Jesus's followers left him found in John 6. Instead, they presented surmised and fictional reasons.

6:29 oh he misunderstood or was told bad information 😮

6:49 There is the position of the Church, and there are people who disagree.
i.e. the Catholic Church always has a position or leaves it to study. If it has declared it, to be Catholic is to accept it.

The perpetual virginity of Our Lady is the teaching of the Church, and for a Catholic to deny it is like an atheist saying God exists.