# Was jesus a big man in his day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 25, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859 "2002-06-25T12:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blueangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Blueangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueangel)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/1 "2002-06-25T12:16:01Z")
🆒 I know this is nitpicking but when i read this question in the long version I was hoping dear cecil would point out the fact that its impossible for "sightseers to view the matflower because the mayslower was turned into a barn the lumber i mean… ---
**Author:** ![Blueangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Blueangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueangel)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/2 "2002-06-25T12:17:22Z")
I apoligize for the fact that i misspeled Mayflower twice ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/3 "2002-06-26T05:30:25Z")
When did that occur? I’m pretty sure the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth Rock later that following spring with the sailors who worked it. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/4 "2002-06-26T11:21:23Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **Blueangel**. A link to the column is appreciated. Providing one can be as simple as pasting the URL into your post, making sure to leave a blank space on either side of it. Like so: [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_034a.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_034a.html) It is far from certain that the _Mayflower_ really was made into a barn, though lots of people believe it was. > [@](#): > > The Rev. J. Rendel Harris, the gentleman who argues for an Egyptian discovery of America, in an extraordinary pair of books The Finding of the Mayflower and The Last of the Mayflower (1920) demonstrates in a series of wild syllogisms that the Mayflower’s bones came to their final resting place as the roof timbers on an old barn at Jordans, Buckinghamshire > [http://www.plimoth.org/Museum/Mayflower/m1.htm](http://www.plimoth.org/Museum/Mayflower/m1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Blueangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Blueangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueangel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/5 "2002-06-26T11:21:53Z")
I’m noe exactly syre but I did see a very trustworthy television show where they showed a barn with a plac in it that said that this was the mayflower(in so many words)and then something about that at the time they really didny care about the historical vaue and just really needed lumber. ---
**Author:** ![Blueangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Blueangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueangel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/6 "2002-06-26T11:23:28Z")
okay to fix my horrible typing ,i meant to say the following words and failed.Not ,didnt ,and value ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/7 "2002-06-26T15:45:48Z")
And also “plaque.” ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/8 "2002-06-26T15:48:51Z")
Are you asking if Jesus was famous and influential in his day, or if he was physically large? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/9 "2002-06-27T02:26:22Z")
**BlueAngel:** Cecil didn’t point out that it’s impossible for sightseers to tour the original _Mayflower_ because he wasn’t asked to address the issue of “whether the _Mayflower_ you can tour today is the real _Mayflower_.” Cecil was asked to address the issue of “the average height of males during Bible times.” Cecil also didn’t point out that the Shroud of Turin probably isn’t really a “xerox” of Jesus, but again, that’s because he wasn’t asked to address that issue. Fiver, I believe the OP is talking about height, and I believe Cecil has already answered the question. ---
**Author:** ![Blueangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Blueangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueangel)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/10 "2002-06-27T04:42:20Z")
Oh well cecil has been known to correct inacuracies in questions i seem to recall him not ansering a question for mentioning of a wrong worm disease although im not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-a-big-man-in-his-day/115859/11 "2002-06-27T18:13:16Z")
Eh?