is this true about jesus race?

Question

yesterday at work one of my co workers said that jesus whats black and i argued and said he was white because of all the paintings i see you start to believe.so im thinking he may want jesus to be black because he is black(im black to)and thats when he said some where in a scripture that hais hair was like wool and his feet was like brass.can someone explain this and tell me where this scripture is taken from?

now he said hair like 'wool' and the race wich is most likely to have hair like wool may not just be blacks but is mostly blacks

i dont care what color he is he is still god

Answer 1

well me personally im not hjear to argue about his facial features but i do belive he was black it says the cripure in revelations... and he was middle eastern

Answer 2

While we can't be 100% certain, the most likely answer would be that he would be of Semetic descent, and look like the people who live in the Middle East today...somewhat darker complexion, with dark hair. The blue-eyed, sandy-blond Jesus that is seen in many Western depictions is probably not accurate, but rather reflects a historical process of making Jesus more accessible and relevant to Europeans. The view that Jesus is black probably originated from similar sentiments (though it also gained a fair amount of popularity and attention among some of the more aggressive groups of the civil rights movement)

Answer 3

I mean it's possible. No one alive today has ever seen Jesus. Who is to say what he looks like or even if he ever existed. According to the bible he had hair like wool and skin of bronze. Well I've never seen a white man with hair like wool or skin like bronze even with a tan. I have seen not only african or african american people with these features, but I have actually seen other nationalities with them as well. When mary was to suppose to have given birth to Jesus she was a traveler. There is no way to say where she even traveled from originally. If she is known to travel she could have been from anywhere and traveled through the years and her actual nationality could be anything. Who knows. As christians or believers aren't they taught not to judge. So don't judge the man about HOW he believes, just be happy that he JUST BELIEVES IN SOMETHING.

P.S. You have a picture of an avatar on above your name. You don't look like that in real life. A painting is just that and nothing more. Portraits and painting are of interpretation of what the artist sees. I have been to plenty of art museums and have not always seen what the artist is describing is there or what he/she sees.

Answer 4

Jesus was middle eastern. I think all the paintings have just been a way for people to try and connect with him better. That is why some paintings show him as black, some white, some Asian, etc. As far as the scripture you are referring to I do not know where that is. Sorry.

Answer 5

Well, darling, Jesus was definitely not the blond haired blue eyed anglo that the whites like to think he was. He was Semitic, more like a very dark Arab or Jew. They did not differentiate as much between the races then; it was more which tribe you were from.
His hair may well have been very dark and wooly as I know many dark African Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, Palestinians, etc, with very coarse hair and their skin tanned turns a luscious dark dark mahogany color. Jesus was not "white" no matter what these people like to say. And, honey, I'm white as a fish, and I'm an American Muslim and we see Jesus (Esa) as the holy prophet of healing and blessings to children. I've studied a lot and I can tell you, it is much more realistic to think of Jesus as a beautiful man of color than as that wimpy picture he's portrayed as in most white churches. The man was a carpenter...don't you think he had to have some muscles? He had to wield hammers and iron spikes and heavy beams. He wasn't a slim little thing. He was a hunk. And he had the scars of his labor. And he probably tied his hair back in a leather thong. And like most men of that area, he probably had a decent amount of body hair, too.
Think about it.

Answer 6

I have read much scripture and I don't recognise that scirpture.If it really exists it's probably one of the prophesies from the old testament.But I take a stand with everone who's answered so far that it does not matter what race Jesus was, it is His blood that saves us But if you look at it from another stand point you could say that it really DOES matter what lineage He came from because all prophesies about Him speak of His lineage.For example if Jesus was born in Austrailia(for example) He would not be the real Jesus because it would nullify all prophesises about Him

Answer 7

Good question. I love archeology and the last I heard regarding Jesus' nationality was that he was probably of Greek ancestory. However, he very well may have African blood in him.

Too, if you want to believe he was of African origin by all means believe that. It really doesn't matter what race he was in the end. Remember, the white race for the most part who've painted all those paintings you see so of course they're going to make Jesus white . . .

Answer 8

The answers are in the Bible..."I think this" and "I think that" is just what people think and want to believe...just go to and search the source! Several different races or religions want to "own" Jesus. The fact is He was born of Middle Eastern parents...pick a color or shade... BUT He was the embodiment of the Son of God ...prophesied of old to come and bring salvation to BOTH Jews and non-Jews to those who would repent of their sin and believe by faith in Him...who He was and what He was doing...reconciling man to God and making Heaven accessible again to mankind that had been separated from God by the sin of Adam. Given that, is color or race that important? What we usually see are artist's depictions created in their mind's eye. The scriptures you refer to are probably from the book(s) of Isaiah, Daniel or Revelations...I'm going to look now myself. Faith..."Believe in God and you will be saved."...not your body here and now but your spirit eternally.

Answer 9

The second answer is more like it. He came from Nazareth and was born in Jerusalem. Middle Eastern people are not black or white.

Answer 10

Jesus grow to be both middle jap or black because of the area of the international he lived in, and the descriptions in the bible. it truly is too not person-friendly to decipher any more effective because there have been an rather good type of black human beings in the middle east in this time period. both way he grow to be remarkable, it isn't about his race. i have self assurance he grow to be black, yet he also might want to were middle jap. truthfully, i do not truly recognize.