Loved The Chosen? What to Watch Next for More Bible Stories

If you have finished the latest season of The Chosen and want more, the best follow-ups are the LUMO Project's word-for-word Gospel films, BibleProject's animated explainers, classic films like The Prince of Egypt, and short-form series apps like Sacred Shorts that cover the Old Testament stories The Chosen never reaches. Each scratches a different part of the same itch: seeing Scripture with your eyes and not just your memory. Here is an honest guide to what to queue up next, and why.

Quick answer: key takeaways

• The Chosen covers the Gospels; most of the Bible's stories, from Creation to the Exodus, are outside its scope, so your next watch can widen the canvas.
• LUMO Project is the closest experience to The Chosen's world, filming Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John word for word.
• BibleProject's animated videos add the context and structure that make every other Bible show richer.
• The Prince of Egypt remains the gold standard Bible movie for the Exodus story.
• Sacred Shorts serializes Old Testament stories (Moses and the Red Sea, Cain and Abel, The Burning Bush, Creation) in cinematic episodes of a few minutes, available on iOS and Android (subscription).

Why The Chosen leaves you wanting more (and why that is good)

Credit where it is due: The Chosen did something rare. It made millions of people care about Peter's marriage, Matthew's loneliness, and Mary Magdalene's redemption, and it sent a remarkable number of them back to the Gospels to check what was real. Its patient, character-first storytelling raised the bar for biblical drama, and the hunger you feel between seasons is evidence the show did its job: it made the world of Scripture feel inhabitable.

But The Chosen is, by design, a Gospels project. The Bible it opens is a library of dozens of books spanning creation, patriarchs, exodus, kings, prophets, and exile before Jesus ever walks on screen. Wanting more after the credits roll is not a problem to fix; it is an appetite to feed well.

"For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." — Romans 15:4 (NIV)

Everything written in the past. That is your watchlist. The series gave you a taste of one corner of the library; the options below open the rest of the building, from the first garden to the empty tomb and beyond.

What to watch next: the honest list

LUMO Project: the Gospels with nothing added

If what you loved about The Chosen was walking around first-century Galilee, LUMO gives you that same immersion with a different promise: every word of narration is the Gospel text itself, unabridged. Watching LUMO's Gospel of John after The Chosen is a clarifying experience; you see exactly where the show dramatized and where it quoted.

BibleProject: the map for everything you watch

BibleProject makes short animated videos that explain the design of each biblical book and its big themes. It is not a drama, and it does not try to be. Think of it as the map you consult so that every other show makes more sense; watch their Exodus overview before any Moses content and the story snaps into focus. Their theme videos, on ideas like covenant, sacrifice, and the Messiah, are especially useful after The Chosen, because they connect the Gospel scenes you just watched to the whole sweep of Scripture that came before them. Everything is free on their site and YouTube channel.

The Prince of Egypt: the Exodus in one unforgettable sitting

More than twenty-five years on, this animated film is still the most stirring screen version of Israel's deliverance. Watch it, then read what actually happened in the Exodus from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea; the film compresses and invents, and the text is even better.

Superbook: for the youngest fans in the house

If your kids caught The Chosen fever secondhand, Superbook is the natural next step for them: an animated series that drops two modern kids into major Bible stories, from Genesis to the Gospels. It takes more creative liberties than anything else on this list, but it does what kids' media should do, planting the shape of the stories early so the real text feels familiar later.

Sacred Shorts: the Old Testament, one short episode at a time

Here is the gap almost nothing on this list fills: serialized Old Testament stories you can actually finish on a weeknight. Sacred Shorts tells cinematic Bible stories in short vertical episodes of a few minutes each, and its catalog leans into the stories The Chosen will never cover: Moses and the Red Sea, Cain and Abel, The Burning Bush, The Plagues, Creation, Adam and Eve, plus Gospel-adjacent series like Judas and Lazarus. New series are added weekly, the app is a subscription app for iOS and Android, and it also includes a full Bible reader, AI Bible Chat, and daily devotionals in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. If The Chosen is appointment television, this is the cinematic, series-style Bible library you carry in your pocket between appointments.

How do you keep watching without replacing reading?

The Chosen's creators say it themselves: the show is a bridge to the Bible, not a substitute. The same is true of everything above. A simple rule keeps the priority straight:

"These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." — John 20:31 (NIV)

The written accounts are the point; the screen exists to serve them. In practice: after each episode or film, spend five minutes in the passage it came from. Watch Cain and Abel, read Genesis 4. Watch the Red Sea part, read Exodus 14. Watch Lazarus walk out of the tomb, read John 11. If you want a structured route through it all, our guide on how to watch the Bible in order lays out a full viewing path, and Bible series vs. Bible movies helps you balance the formats.

One more habit worth borrowing from The Chosen's own fan culture: watch with people. Much of what made the series a phenomenon was not the episodes themselves but the living rooms, youth groups, and group chats where people processed them together. Any of the options above gains the same power in company. Invite the friend who asked you about the show, watch one short story or one Gospel film together, and let the conversation happen. Scripture was written to communities and has always done its deepest work when it is received that way, one story sparking one honest conversation at a time.

Your next step: build a between-seasons watchlist

Pick one option from each row of the table: one word-for-word Gospel film, one BibleProject overview, one movie night, and one short-form series for daily minutes. That mix gives you depth, context, spectacle, and habit, and it will comfortably carry you to the next season of The Chosen with a much bigger picture of the story Jesus completes.

A sample week to make it concrete: Monday, a BibleProject overview of Exodus; Tuesday through Friday, one short Sacred Shorts episode a night from the Moses and the Red Sea series with the matching chapter afterward; Saturday, The Prince of Egypt with the family; Sunday, LUMO's Gospel of John, episode one. Seven days, four formats, one continuous story, and by the end of it the wait for the next season will feel less like an intermission and more like part of the journey. For more story-by-story guides to what you will be watching, browse our Bible Stories category.