Teaching Notes
Veronica Wastes her Money on Doctors
Season 3 · Episode 5 - 2:50
How to use this clip
This clip from an imagined (but plausible) moment in The Chosen helps preachers and group leaders show what life might have been like for the woman suffering from the issue of bleeding (Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, and Luke 8:43-48) ~OR~ it can be used to illustrate a sermon or inspire a group discussion on topics like:
- Backstory
- Disappointment
- Disease
- Illness
- Law
- Outcasts
- Rejection
- Suffering
- Unclean
- Woman with Issue of Blood
We have included a short script to help you introduce the clip before you show it during a sermon or a group discussion.
How to introduce this clip
“Three of the four gospel accounts tell us the story of a woman who had suffered terribly from an issue of bleeding, and when she shows up in The Chosen, it’s incredibly moving. The creators of the show use their imaginations to color in her backstory to help us truly feel the depth of her agony, the depth of her pain, and I want to show you one of these imagined moments. To set the scene just a bit, you’re going to watch as two of Jesus’s disciples happen upon the woman at her campsite and eventually, a conversation unfolds. Let’s watch and listen in…”
*If your church does not know about The Chosen, before you show the scene, you might also want to tell them the following: “The Chosen is a television show that tells the story of Jesus through the eyes of the people who knew him.”