# Does this look like Jesus?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 19, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605 "2006-01-19T03:43:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/1 "2006-01-19T03:43:15Z")
Found this on my local Craigslist. Someone is claiming they can see Jesus in a piece of wood and they want $5000 for it. I see a slight, very slight facial look but nothing like Jesus. [Have a look.](http://seattle.craigslist.org/clt/126489679.html)
---
### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/2 "2006-01-19T03:45:08Z")
You know, if it’s just a face, it’s worth a couple bucks. You decide it looks like Jesus, and it’s $5000. I’ve got no clue why it’s Jesus-y aside from the fact that there’s a beard.
---
### Author:  [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/3 "2006-01-19T04:16:34Z")
I don’t see anything that even remotely looks like Jesus in that, and yet, I’m sure there’s someone out there who’ll pay $5,000 for it.
---
### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/4 "2006-01-19T04:25:36Z")
It’s not Jesus. It’s the Zig-Zag dude. And I’d pay a few thousand for it if I was totally baked.
---
### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/5 "2006-01-19T04:26:02Z")
I saw it at first glance. And I’d bet a nickel that [GoldenPalace.com](http://GoldenPalace.com) will buy it.
---
### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/6 "2006-01-19T04:30:33Z")
Looks like George Harrison, circa 1970, to me.
---
### Author:  [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/7 "2006-01-19T04:38:31Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Does this look like Jesus?
As we have no idea what he looked like …
---
### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/8 "2006-01-19T05:00:43Z")
No way, it’s totally Ted Nugent.
---
### Author:  [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/9 "2006-01-19T05:14:57Z")
I’m pretty sure jesus was in 3d while this piece of wood is CLEARLY 2d
---
### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/10 "2006-01-19T05:59:29Z")
> [@Askance](#):
>
> As we have no idea what he looked like …
Nonsense; he looked like [Matthew McConaughey](http://www.information-bureau.com/images/jesus.jpg).
---
### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/11 "2006-01-19T06:50:39Z")
Well, it does look a little like an old driver’s licence picture, but nothing like me now.
Oh, and the answer is “BMW”.
---
### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/12 "2006-01-19T09:20:33Z")
Nah. I see wood grain and that’s it. Even the helpful circle didn’t help.
---
### Author:  [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/13 "2006-01-19T09:57:31Z")
That’s one scary, scary Jesus: [http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7458/woodjesus3pm.gif](http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7458/woodjesus3pm.gif)
---
### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/14 "2006-01-19T11:02:36Z")
I’m seeing an entirely different Jesus in the wood; only visible in the top right photo (obscured in the others by reflection) and still within the marked area - a sort of blotchy Jesus that superficially resembles the famous Turin Shroud image.
---
### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/15 "2006-01-19T11:49:35Z")
I agree with NurseCarmen. Big, smiley Zig-Zag man.
---
### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/16 "2006-01-19T13:30:46Z")
From one angle, it looked like Tommy Chong. From another, it looked like Guy Smiley, the Muppet news reporter.
---
### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/17 "2006-01-19T13:55:45Z")
It looks exactly like all actual photographs of the historic Jesus. We have a winner!
---
### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/18 "2006-01-19T18:14:55Z")
Actually, it’s a rather nice piece of wood. I could make Jesus into a tabletop, and park drinks on his forehead.
---
### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/19 "2006-01-19T18:40:32Z")
Apparently somebody decided it didn’t. The page currently reads:
> [@](#):
>
> Date: 2006-01-18, 3:32PM PST
> This posting has been deleted by its author.
---
### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605/20 "2006-01-19T19:35:16Z")
> [@](#):
>
> This posting has been deleted by its author.
Let’s check back in three days.
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-look-like-jesus/340605.md?page=2)