What did Jesus look like? (Isaiah, bible, quote, Jewish)
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What did Jesus looked like? Is there any references in the Bible or other sources which states what Jesus looked like?
There have been different images of Jesus in different regions of the world. In Africa Jesus is portrayed Black, In China he looks oriental. In Northern Europe he is portrayed as Blonde hair. In India he can be portrayed as a Indian.
That's your description of what Jesus looked like? 1) What are your sources and 2) how would you draw or paint that to show someone?
The Bible never gives any physical description of Christ. The closest thing we get to a description is in Isaiah 53:2, “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.” All this tells us is that Jesus’ appearance was just like any other man's – He was ordinary-looking.
Jesus was a Jew, so He likely had dark skin, dark eyes, and dark hair. That's not exactly the blond-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned Jesus in many modern pictures! If Jesus' physical appearance was important, Matthew, John and James would have given us a description, since they spent three years with Him. Frankly, no one who was with Jesus and wrote the scriptures described Him physically.
What did Jesus looked like? Is there any references in the Bible or other sources which states what Jesus looked like?
There have been different images of Jesus in different regions of the world. In Africa Jesus is portrayed Black, In China he looks oriental. In Northern Europe he is portrayed as Blonde hair. In India he can be portrayed as a Indian.
He probably looked a bit like the young Cat Stevens. He was Semite and should have had dark hair and brown eyes. The Bible tells us that there was nothing unusual about his physical appearance.
He was a middle eastern jew, so he would have looked like Mizrahim do today - typically middle eastern. It makes sense, Jews are indigenous to the middle east and speak a language that is related to Arabic, so it stands to reason jews during the time of Jesus wouldn't have looked all that different from other Levantine peoples.
Some pictures of these people from google image searches of the words Mizrahim and Mizrahi Jew.
What did Jesus looked like? Is there any references in the Bible or other sources which states what Jesus looked like?
There have been different images of Jesus in different regions of the world. In Africa Jesus is portrayed Black, In China he looks oriental. In Northern Europe he is portrayed as Blonde hair. In India he can be portrayed as a Indian.
None of the above. The traditional Iconic Jesus is not Jewish in origin but Byzantine. The dark -eyes, haunted look is Byzantine greek. Though Maybe Jewish Jesus didn't look too much unlike that.
The reinvention of him in 'Light of the world' as a blue - eyed Nordic with an Anglo - saxon ginger beard is vaguely unsettling.
The Shroud of Turin has already been proven fake. It has been carbon dated to the 15th Century... NOT the time of Christ.
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That's your description of what Jesus looked like? 1) What are your sources and 2) how would you draw or paint that to show someone?
The traditional Iconic Jesus is not Jewish in origin but Byzantine. The dark -eyes, haunted look is Byzantine greek. Though Maybe Jewish Jesus didn't look too much unlike that.
Shroud of Turin Images
