# RE: what did Jesus look loke **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 20, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165 "2019-12-20T23:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/1 "2019-12-20T23:35:57Z")
I’m surprised Cecil didn’t pursue this further–since Jesus was Jewish(and there was not a lot of intermarriage) wouldn’t his hair been darker, curlier, and his nose would have been different, and darker eyes ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/2 "2019-12-20T23:36:56Z")
Don’t forget the horns. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/3 "2019-12-20T23:45:34Z")
This question is about as valid as a discussion on how thick a unicorn horn is, what temperature a dragon’s fire reaches, and the length of Pinocchio’s nose. First, we need to establish the Jesus existed, at least the Jesus of supernatural tendencies. Then, and only then, does it make the slightest sense to talk about his physical attributes. Or his loke. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/4 "2019-12-21T00:08:26Z")
> [@fedman](#): > > I’m surprised Cecil didn’t pursue this further–since Jesus was Jewish(and there was not a lot of intermarriage) wouldn’t his hair been darker, curlier, and his nose would have been different, and darker eyes I thought [Slug’s illustration](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3341/who-came-up-with-our-popular-image-of-jesus/) took care of that. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/5 "2019-12-21T02:37:21Z")
The Levant was a crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa for many thousands of years before the time of Jesus. Then, as NOW, you might see a wide range of looks. While it’s safe to say that Jesus was unlikely to have looked like a native of Scandinavia, it’s as impossible to definitively say what he would have looked like. A Lebanese, Assyrian, Palestinian, or Egyptian person can look like they would 100% pass as a native of central Europe, or they can look like they’re South Asian or North African. Just depends on the individual. It’s a region of great genetic diversity. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/6 "2019-12-21T04:59:01Z")
He probably didn’t look like this. > **[Who is this man?](https://thesecretatheist.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/who-is-this-man/)** > > This showed up in an atheist group I’m a member of on Facebook and I couldn’t stop laughing at it:   I used this link because out of the ones I tried, it had the best image. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/7 "2019-12-21T05:17:26Z")
The funny thing is that Kenny Loggins could easily pass as a native of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon or Iraq, as well as Greece. He has a face straight out of a Byzantine mosaic. According to Wikipedia he’s half Italian. I’m guessing the ancestry is from the south of that country, like most Americans, although those features can appear anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/8 "2019-12-21T05:40:00Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > He probably didn’t look like this. > > [Who is this man? | The Secret Atheist](https://thesecretatheist.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/who-is-this-man/) That depends: who was his hair stylist? ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-did-jesus-look-loke/845165/9 "2019-12-21T13:40:05Z")
I think this is my go-to image fro Jesus: [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjMxMDk5OTgxMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTY2NjIwMjE@._V1_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjMxMDk5OTgxMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTY2NjIwMjE@._V1_.jpg)