Jesus! how do we know he had a beard?

Question

When we think of jesus, everyone thinks of him as a middle aged man with a beard. Why Is it every time we see picture of him he's got a beard. How Do we know this????

Answer 1

A lot of ignoramusses around here this time of day. The jezus image we have (with the long hair and beard) was formed around the 11th century in the Byzantine empire. No one really knows how it originated but it is safe to say chances are slim the actual Jezus looked like that image. Before that day Jezus had been protrayed in many different forms. But the most safe assumption would be to say that he looked like most common Jews at the time with short hair and cleanly shaven. Long hair was considered not done for a jewish man at that time. A beard was seen as bad hygiene. He might have been a rebel. But I think he wouldn't have gotten many followers looking like a hippie in those days

Answer 2

First of all, I would like to say to Benji_13 -- I bet EVERYTHING you have is "little." Just like your beard and your brain.

Jesus was crucified when he was just 33 years old. He was certainly not "middle-aged," not by today's standards anyway. And did Jesus have a beard? The Bible doesn’t tell us, and, in fact, the word "beard" doesn’t appear in the New Testament. Although Jewish custom may have required men to be bearded, many of the earliest images of Jesus show him beardless.

The image of Jesus that I remember from my childhood is a young man with long hair (probably much shinier and cleaner than it would have been in real life) and a very kind, compassionate expression on his face. No beard.

It seems like someone would have painted a portrait of him all those years ago, and that his image would have been handed down through the ages and generations, but I don't think that is the case. I think we can assume his hair was long, and that He may or may not have had a beard. Either way, it doesn't matter. He still came to earth to save us all. :-)

Answer 3

We don't. There were no real drawings or renderings of his physical attributes. The pictures you see have to be completely wrong. Usually he is pictured with long brownish/red hair and a beard. In the bible He teaches that men should keep their hair short and their beards trimmed. Also he was probably a small, slight man with dark skin and dark hair, as in keeping with the region where he was native.

Answer 4

Well men didn't have the fancy blades you men have now for shaving so it's only natural to think every man way back then had a beard. Shaving was a lot harder then too. Men just had knives to shave. That must have been a nuisance to shave with. Imagine all the cuts you could get.

Answer 5

something to do with the serious lack of mach 3s around at that time i guess.
also if they give him a beard it's covering half his face anyway so no one has to guess exactly what he looks like in terms of his actual features.
he's probably thought of as a certain age because of all the miracles in the bible are when he's an adult so that's how he is pictured.

Answer 6

We only see what the Christian church wanted us to see. According to various books and authors Jesus was in fact a short man with a slight humped back. Not quite the image of the Messiah that the church would want to portray..

Answer 7

we don't - we do not know what he looked like at all. Although I am pretty certain that he would have been dark skinned, rather than pasty white as the churches of europe lead us to beleive (after he was born in the middle east).

The image we have of Jesus is just a copy of the greek and roman image of their chief God Zeus.

Answer 8

funny you should ask this it was what my seven year olds class was talking about...well what if we found his d.n.a. and got a real likeness from that? much scarier, there is a book where it is in the story....

and the answer to your question? simple....IT WAS THE FASHION at the time!

:-) All men wore beards!

Answer 9

Beards were the fashion at that time

Answer 10

He was Jewish, and although he came to revolutionalize Judaeism, he most likely still held the cultural practices, and in the Jewish belief, you did not cut your beard or the sides of your hair.