# How much did Jesus resemble Mary?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-jesus-resemble-mary/972511 "2022-09-30T15:40:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-jesus-resemble-mary/972511/41 "2022-10-28T14:22:51Z")

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So they agree he is an ant!

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-jesus-resemble-mary/972511/42 "2022-11-01T22:29:49Z")

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> [@Bootb](#):
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> That’s exactly the opposite of what Paul’s writings say.

Eh, I’m with @susan here. The Jesus that Paul talks about is the Jesus he claims to have met personally… in a vision of light. He’s much more interested in the metaphysical concept of Jesus than in the flesh-and-blood person. He never even mentions any of Jesus’s Earthly relatives, or any of his biographical details other than the Crucifixion, so far as I remember.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-jesus-resemble-mary/972511/43 "2022-11-01T22:36:56Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> > [@Bootb](#):
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> > That’s exactly the opposite of what Paul’s writings say. ⁢
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> Eh, I’m with @susan here. The Jesus that Paul talks about is the Jesus he claims to have met personally… in a vision of light. He’s much more interested in the metaphysical concept of Jesus than in the flesh-and-blood person. He never even mentions any of Jesus’s Earthly relatives, or any of his biographical details other than the Crucifixion, so far as I remember. ⁢

While true, he also treats them as one and the same person. His vision of Jesus _was_ of the historical Jesus, as far as he was concerned.

Heck, this is part of why people assume Jesus had short hair: surely Paul wouldn’t have said that it was a shame for men to have long hair if Jesus’s hair was long. Though, of course, what counts as long back then might be different.

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