The Chosen's final season is fully funded. The translation list runs to 42 Indian languages.

A hundred and seventy-five countries of donors, for a series whose own boilerplate says it exists "to share the authentic Jesus with at least one billion people worldwide."

Season 7 is the last one. It covers the resurrection, it finished filming on 24 September after eight years, and it reaches cinemas on 31 March 2028.

The next bill is translation

With production funded, the foundation says the work shifts to getting the series into 600 languages. Its own About page gives the split: 100 dubbed, another 500 subtitled. The stated aim is to "reach 95% of the world in their heart language."

Kira McCracken, the foundation's chief development officer, put the remaining distance plainly: "With The Chosen now available in more than 175 languages, our supporters are the reason we can continue our journey to 600."

The Languages page claims a record for it — "we just broke our own Guinness World Record: The Chosen is now the most translated streaming series in history" — without putting a number beside the claim. The figure that does carry one is from February, when Guinness recognised Season 1 as the most-translated season of a television series, at 125 languages.

We counted the Indian languages

The foundation publishes the whole list, language by language, with a status for each of Seasons 1 to 5. It runs to 160 rows across sixteen pages of a table, and as far as we can find, nobody has sat down and counted what is in there from India.

So we did. Forty-four of the 160 rows are languages of India — 42 distinct languages, since Bengali and Punjabi each appear twice under slightly different labels. That is more than a quarter of the entire translation programme, for one country.

Six are subtitled and dubbed across all five seasons: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.

Nine more are partly dubbed. Assamese, Kannada and Marathi carry dubs for the first two seasons and subtitles after that. Malayalam, Bhojpuri and Garhwali are dubbed for Season 1. Urdu is dubbed through Season 4.

The remaining twenty-eight are subtitles for now. This is the part worth reading slowly:

Awadhi. Bagri. Bhadrawahi. Bilaspuri. Bodo. Bundeli. Chambeali. Chhattisgarhi. Dogri. Dotyali. Gaddi. Goan Konkani. Haryanvi. Kanauji. Kashmiri. Magahi. Maithili. Malvi. Mewari. Mising. Mizo. Odia. Santali. Sindhi. Sora. Tulu. Varli. Zeme Naga.

Several of those are languages no streaming service has ever troubled itself with. Sora is spoken by tribal communities in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Varli belongs to Maharashtra and Gujarat. Zeme Naga is a Naga language of Nagaland, Manipur and Assam. Mising is spoken along the Brahmaputra. These are not markets. Nobody is going to recover the cost of subtitling a television drama into Bhadrawahi.

Nepali and Sinhala are on the list too, which carries it over the border either side.

Why this lands differently here

Because in India the app is the route, not Prime Video. Season 6 starts streaming on Prime on 15 November, and India is not one of the Prime territories for it. Here, Seasons 1 to 5 are on Netflix, on Lionsgate+ through Prime Video, and free on The Chosen's own app, which carries English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Season 6 goes free in the app in spring 2027.

So the translation programme is not a courtesy extended to Indian viewers after the fact. For most of this country, it is the distribution.

And the app figures suggest that is where the audience has quietly gone. Stacey Baxter, Come and See's senior director of marketing, growth and engagement, told Deseret News that international use of the app has risen over the past year, "particularly in countries such as India and Brazil." In October, she said, the app recorded 2.2 million international users against 1.6 million in the United States.

International has overtaken home. For a series shot in Texas and paid for largely by Americans, that is the number to sit with.

The dates

• 15 November 2026 — Season 6, episodes 1 to 3, on Prime Video. Not India.
• 6 December 2026 — Season 6 finishes streaming, weekly after the first three.
• 12 March 2027 — the Season 6 finale, in cinemas, globally and in several languages.
• Spring 2027 — Season 6 free on The Chosen app. This is the India date.
• 31 March 2028 — Season 7 in cinemas, streaming afterwards.

That question is asked at Pentecost by a crowd from fifteen named places, and it is asked in astonishment — not because the message was clever, but because it arrived in the language they were born into. It is a small, unglamorous thing, hearing your own tongue. It is also the thing people remember.

Eighty-six thousand people have now finished paying for the story to be filmed. What they are paying for next is for somebody in a village in Chamba, or along the Brahmaputra, to watch it without first having to learn somebody else's language. Bhadrawahi will never earn that back. It is on the list anyway.