Shaan Sharma AKA Shmuel from the Chosen

[@DebeW1123]

Shawn, you play Schmuel so well. I have liked that character since day one and more with every season. You can see the struggle on Schmuel’s face and in his eyes - especially when he listens to and talks face to face with Jesus. Unlike other Pharisees and Scribes, he is not threatened that Jesus might actually be the Messiah. He is just afraid that he will believe and be wrong. A very multi-faceted character.

[@MarianGass]

He gave a fabulous speech! I have so much respect for him. God bless him!

[@damali.]

Well said, Shaan! So good! 👏🏾

[@SuzanneMckim]

Thank for sharing!

[@stampinggrannieboyd9170]

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope we will get to see what transpired when Shmuel went to pray with Jesus. ❤

[@jemimahjasminea3228]

Definitely you are the light or fire in the darkness... Happy to know that you are an Indian shinning so bright for God...May God bless you brother...😊 Love The chosen show... Lots of love from India...❤

[@lillianmcgrew217]

Thank you

[@ClaudiaWeirauch]

Shaan, you're such a gem. Thank you so much for sharing your heart. You are a blessing. Be blessed.

[@ellenhulslander2897]

You can see the conflict in the character of Schmuel as he digs deeper into his investigation. The motivations of those around him that are helping him with his investigation are troubling him. I hope they continue delving into this aspect of his character. What a beautiful speech.

[@sharonagoren6751]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@mgarcia4335]

W.O.W.!!!!

[@jobinkoshy8197]

👍Messianic Prophecies: God claimed he fortells the future, especially about who the Messiah will be in the Hebrew Scriptures. “Declare to us the things to come, tell us what the future holds, so that we may know that you are gods.” (Isa. 41:23) “Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the Lord?” (Isa. 45:21) Peter - Acts 3:18,22 those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren (Deu 18:15)'. Jesus - John 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. Luke 24:44,46 Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me. This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day Birth/Life - As Moses had to escape infanticide, and was made to return to his land, and as Moses turned water to blood as his first sign and commanded the sea and fed many in the wilderness, so was Jesus, and as Moses established the memorial of the slain lamb to remember their deliverance, so was Jesus. Messiah would be a prophet (Deu18:15), a priest (Zec6:13); called King (Ps2:6), declared the Son of God (Ps2:7); Messiah would be God (Isa9:6) born in Bethlehem (Micah5:2); born of a virgin (Isa7:14); come from the line of Abraham (Gen22:18), Issac (Gen17:19), Jacob (Num24:17), from the tribe of Judah (Gen49:10), heir to the throne of King David (Isa9:7); come before the destruction of the second temple at AD 70 (Mal3:1). Ministry begins in Galilee (Isa9:1); Will heal the blind, deaf, lame and raise the dead (Isa35:5); Will teach the people using parables (Ps78:2); enter Jerusalem on a donkey (Zec9:9); usher in a new covenant (Jer31:31) Crucifixion - As Joseph was betrayed and sold by his own and later was exalted, so was Jesus. As Moses lifted up the bronze serpent so that those who look to it are saved, so was Jesus. As Psalm 22 & Isaiah 53 describe crucifixion and as the Passover lamb which was to be eaten and its blood on the door saved them and as the sacrificial lamb symbolized the atoning for sins, so was Jesus. As the high Priest in the tabernacle sprinkles the blood of the sacrifice on the golden mercy seat in the holy of holies, so was Jesus. betrayed for 30 pieces of silver (Zec11:13); be rejected by His own people; pierced & atone for our sins (Isa53:3-10) and bring an end to sin (Dan9:24) Resurrection - As Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish, so was Jesus' resurrection from the dead on the third day. As Issac was to be sacrificed on the third day and was delivered from death, so was Jesus. rise from the dead (Ps16:10); become a Light to the Gentiles and all nations (Isa60:3); worshipped by all nations (Dan9:14) Resurrection of Jesus: Justin Bass (Christian NT Scholar) "Virtually all non-believing scholars agree that Mary Magdalene, Peter, Paul and James, Jesus’ brother were honest and trustworthy when they claimed Jesus appeared to them risen from the dead... it transformed their lives to the point of being willing to suffer and die for what they saw" Gary Habermas (Christian Philosopher) "Virtually no one, believer or critic, denies that it was their convictions that they had seen the resurrected Jesus that caused the disciples' radical transformation. They are willing to die specifically for their resurrection belief" Mike Licona (Historian) "The historian looks for high probability and selects the best explanation of the known facts... The resurrection of Jesus is the best explanation of the historical facts, and therefore, we can conclude with confidence that it was an event that occured in history" Paula Fredrikson (Non Christian Jewish scholar) "I know in their own terms what they saw was the risen Jesus. That's what they say, and then all the historic evidence we have afterwards attest to their conviction that that's what they saw. I'm not saying that they really did see the raised Jesus. I wasn't there. I don't know what they saw. But I do know that as a historian that they must have seen something" Pinchas Lapide (Jewish NT scholar), "When this scared, frightened band of apostles which was just about to throw away everything in order to flee in despair to Galilee; when these peasants, shepherds, and fishermen, who betrayed and denied their master and then failed him miserably, suddenly could be changed overnight into a confident mission society, convinced of salvation and able to work with much more success after Easter than before Easter, then no vision or hallucination is sufficient to explain such a revolutionary transformation." "[Admits Jesus rose because of historical evidence] I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known…not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus.” Gred Ludemann (atheist nt professor) "It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus's death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ." (Ludemann believes they hallucinated) Bart Ehrman (agnostic nt scholar) "it is a historical fact that some of Jesus' followers came to believe that he had been raised from the dead soon after his execution"