Prime Video released the official trailer for Season 6 of The Chosen this morning, and it doesn’t ease viewers into what’s coming. The roughly two-and-a-half-minute cut covers the final twenty-four hours of Jesus’s life — the hours the Church has marked as Good Friday for two thousand years — and three lines drawn from the trailer itself frame how differently each side in that story reads the same day: “Pharisees call it justice. Romans call it peace. Followers call it murder.”
That’s the ground this trailer walks. Mounting tension in Jerusalem, the Sanhedrin’s trial, and a man who — as the trailer’s own closing line puts it — knows “before the sun sets, Jesus of Nazareth will be dead.” Series creator Dallas Jenkins has been saying for months that this is the heaviest material the production has ever shot, and the trailer is the first real look at what that’s meant on screen.
Jenkins wrote the caption accompanying today’s release himself, and it’s become the line most outlets are leading with: “He chose surrender and humility and sacrifice.” He’s been just as direct elsewhere about what getting here cost the production. “It was painful to shoot, and it’s painful to contemplate,” he’s said of the season. Elsewhere: “Season 5 was the powder keg. In Season 6, it explodes” — and, on why this particular chapter of the story still needs telling after two thousand years of retellings, “Everyone knows the basics of this part of the story, but not everyone knows the ‘why’ of the crucifixion.”
The returning cast reads like a reunion of everyone the show has spent five seasons building: Jonathan Roumie as Jesus, Elizabeth Tabish as Mary Magdalene, Shahar Isaac as Peter, Paras Patel as Matthew, Noah James as Andrew, George H. Xanthis as John, Vanessa Benavente as Mother Mary, Luke Dimyan as Judas, Richard Fancy as Caiaphas, Paul Ben-Victor as Herod, and Andrew James Allen as Pilate. Patel, who’s played Matthew since the pilot, put the hope behind the hard material plainly: “To anyone out there struggling, feeling down, I hope they look towards ‘The Chosen.’”
Season 6 premieres November 15 on Prime Video with three episodes at once, then continues weekly — Episode 4 on November 22, Episode 5 on November 29, and Episode 6, the season’s close, on December 6. Six episodes in total, available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The story doesn’t end there: the season’s real finale, a standalone theatrical release focused on the Resurrection, arrives in theaters March 12, 2027 — a later, more specific date than the “spring 2027” window we had when we last wrote about this season.
Watch the trailer for yourself below:
Or watch it directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVqrE7azRqw
Three weeks ago, before any of this existed to watch, we wrote about where Matthew’s Gospel says this part of the story eventually goes — the temple curtain tearing, the earthquake, the tombs opening. Today’s trailer doesn’t go there yet. It’s locked on the hours before, the ones where a man who could have stopped all of it chose not to. That’s still the harder story to sit with.