# Was Jesus allegedly handsome?

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**Created:** [February 24, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-allegedly-handsome/230917 "2004-02-24T16:26:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-allegedly-handsome/230917/21 "2004-02-25T06:24:31Z")

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Jesus was extremely plain looking. So much so that when he was arrested, Judas kissed him so they would know WHO to arrest. He was such an average joe, looks wise, that he blended into the crowd.

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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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-allegedly-handsome/230917/22 "2004-02-28T20:25:13Z")

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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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