Jesus: How Do You Picture His Appearance?

He might have had longish hair , but perhaps he kept his hair at a decent length. He definitely had a beard though.

Calvin079

Men from Nazareth typically kept their hair short.

lol

.

Is there anyone who pictures Jesus having Caucasian qualities?

jerk-o-tron2000

Like a Middle-Eastern Jew. It's hard to say much more than that beyond guesswork. However, there is some evidence that gives more information.

Just take the notion of him having a beard. Take this painting from 330 C.E. of Jesus' baptism as an example:

However, these paintings are not always historically correct. Take the clothing of this other painting of a beardless Jesus from around 500 C.E..

Despite whatever paintings might be seen of him having no beard, there is perhaps more evidence of him having one. Take a passage from Isaiah 50:6 that many believe to be a prophecy of Jesus, "I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting."

Isaiah 53:2b goes on to say, "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." This is not to say that he was ugly, he just looked like a normal, average guy you might see walking down the street. The only time there was a literal glow about him was during his Transfigeration and possibly after his resurrection.

At the end of the day, however, we no nothing about what Jesus looked like other than knowing he looked like the average Middle-Eastern Jew.

.

Is there anyone who pictures Jesus having Caucasian qualities?

the way he looks on family guy

Is there anyone who pictures Jesus having Caucasian qualities?

jerk-o-tron2000

While his physical appearanc was never really all that important to me, I guess I'd say that His depiction in the move The Passion of the Christ is about what I have always thought he'd look like. Not exactly, but along those lines.

Probably looks something like this right now

Like a strung out junkie. Wild eyed crazed look, long dirty greasy hair, smelly unkempt appearance in general. You know, what the average person living 2,000 yrs ago in the middle east that was too busy ranting and raving about nonsense instead of having a family, a routine, a vocation, and other normal everyday things including personal hygiene.

He was either a white guy with long brown hair and a beard, or a black guy with dark dreadlocks.

:P

[QUOTE="jerk-o-tron2000"]

Is there anyone who pictures Jesus having Caucasian qualities?

Calvin079

lol

TaoJeetKuneDo

LMAO:lol:

lol

TaoJeetKuneDo

LMAO:lol:

Apologies if already posted ^_________^tofu-lion91

Jesus H. Grohl

[QUOTE="jerk-o-tron2000"]

Is there anyone who pictures Jesus having Caucasian qualities?

ChampionoChumps

jews = religion

Caucasian = race

:?

also middle eastern jews 2000 years ago =/= western jews today

[QUOTE="TaoJeetKuneDo"]

lol

Kcube

LMAO:lol:

:lol:

i know this has already been posted but what the hell

i want to post it

I don't have an example picture handy, but he likely looked like any other Jewish individual living in Israel at that time. That is to say, he was common looking, likely had shorter hair and a beard, and a darker skin tone that is nothing like the European long-haired Jesus that came out of Western Christian art. He would have been rather strongly built given his "day job", but probably not very tall compared to individuals today. Nothing visually would have stood out about him.

A brown, decaying skull with lots of dust that used to be bones.

Well, it's incorrect to picture Jesus as Caucasian, considering that He is an Israelite (from the tribe of Judah, to be exact). The question would be, what was the complexion and hair color of Israelites of the day? I assume it would be similar to other Middle Eastern peoples-- darker complexion and hair.

I've heard that it's also inaccurate to depict Jesus with long hair, as long hair was not the custom for men in Jesus' day.

He walks among us.

Dark skinned, dark-eyed, dark hair. Like any other Jew of his time (remember, most modern Jews do not look like the Jews of 2,000 years ago). Short in height, though average for his people. Probably fairly muscular. I kinda imagine him as being a Nazirite (like Samson), so I picture him as having a thick beard and long, likely dreadlocked, hair. Although he is said to have drank wine, so that contradicts the Nazrite thing (which is no more than a fancy of my imagination anyway). On the other hand Jesus violated all kinds of commandments, so, yeah, maybe he was a wine drinking Nazirite.

Like this.

.

LOL @ people that think he was white. Dude was an Isreaelite. It even says so in the Bible that he has "Bronze" skin. I always laugh at the depictions of him with Blonde hair and blue eyes:lol:

[QUOTE="ChampionoChumps"]

[QUOTE="jerk-o-tron2000"]

Is there anyone who pictures Jesus having Caucasian qualities?

Half-Way

jews = religion

Caucasian = race

:?

also middle eastern jews 2000 years ago =/= western jews today

[QUOTE="Half-Way"]

[QUOTE="ChampionoChumps"] :lol: Jews are of the Caucasian race

Theokhoth

jews = religion

Caucasian = race

:?

also middle eastern jews 2000 years ago =/= western jews today

It's an ethnicity, not a race. Jews may be of any racial background. There's basically three main groups of Jews today. The majority of modern Jews are Ashkenazi ("Germanic") Jews. There are also Shepardi (meaning "Hispanic") Jews, and Mizrahi (meaning "Eastern") Jews (used now to refer to those Jews of Middle Eastern/North African ancestry).