# Jesus Ethnicity

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ethnicity/232257>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ethnicity/232257 "2004-03-03T06:08:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakeb1125](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@jakeb1125](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakeb1125)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ethnicity/232257/1 "2004-03-03T06:08:25Z")

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With all the hype about the Passion of Christ Movie, an old debate came to my mind, What ethnicity was jesus? Was he the white man portrayed in the movie or was middle eastern? Thank You for your input  
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**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ethnicity/232257/2 "2004-03-03T06:20:55Z")

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> [@jakeb1125](#):
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> With all the hype about the Passion of Christ Movie, an old debate came to my mind, What ethnicity was jesus? Was he the white man portrayed in the movie or was middle eastern? Thank You for your input  
> 🙂

Jeuse was not white, as portrayed in many movies (including TPotC). According to the bible he was Jewish which would have made him Semitic. Think the skin tone of Yasser Arafat or Jordan’s King Hussein.

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**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ethnicity/232257/3 "2004-03-03T14:32:34Z")

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Well, he lived in Israel, his mother was Jewish, and his father was God . . . so that would make him a Deo-Jewish Israeli, right?

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-ethnicity/232257/4 "2004-03-03T14:39:02Z")

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[Here he is](http://popularmechanics.com/science/research/2002/12/real_face_jesus/print.phtml).