# Just what did Jesus look like?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2004, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644 "2004-02-23T09:07:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644/41 "2004-02-26T20:04:54Z")

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> [@TSowell](#):
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> Some people think Jesus is black.

Slave owners justified what they were doing by using scripture. It didn’t make sense to the slaves that their savior was white.

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**Author:** ![ElectroSunDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@ElectroSunDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectroSunDog)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644/42 "2004-02-27T00:16:46Z")

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> [@TSowell](#):
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> Some people think Jesus is black.

That’s not surprising. People have depicted Jesus to look more like themselves throughout history, in order to make him easier to “connect” to. As a matter of fact, if you look at old Oriental images of Him, He looks suspiciously Asian…

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**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644/43 "2004-02-27T01:12:48Z")

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“He had hair like a lamb, skin like bronze, and averaged 42 points a game”  
Chris Rock

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**Author:** ![Gern\_Blanston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gern\_Blanston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gern_Blanston)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644/44 "2004-02-27T02:47:13Z")

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> [@spingears](#):
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> He came to deliver His (God’s Message), seal the New Testament with his life’s blood, be buried and ressurected the third day for the deliverance of mankind from the consequences of sin. He left nothing of a material nature behind to be worshiped in place of Himself and God.

I’m reminded of an old Second City sketch, where God and Jesus are discussing his upcoming ‘mission’ to Earth:

God: Most artists will paint you to look like a gay Norwegian.

Jesus: What will I really look like?

God: Frank Zappa.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-did-jesus-look-like/230644/45 "2004-02-28T20:26:36Z")

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From Robert Graves’ novel _King Jesus_ (London: Cassell & Company, 1946), Chapter 16:

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> I perceive [said the Gadelian] that we can keep no secrets from each other, even the Prime Secret. You have a Typhonic, or harvest-red, beard, you write left-handedly, your nose is hooked like an eagle’s beak, your face is pale, your eyes are sea-green and luminous, the veins in your forehead branch in a blue _Upsilon._ But the seventh sign of royalty?"
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> Jesus answered: “Under this garment my right shoulder is white as ivory.”

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