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2007-05-12 14:19:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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He probably didnt. Those are just pictures you see. An artists interpretation of Him. There are no pictures of the real Jesus. If you read what Paul wrote men and not to have long hair. So Im sure Jesus did not. Peace out....................

2007-05-12 14:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by powerliftingrules 5 · 2 0

Actually I saw a TV show on the history channel or something like that once, and they did a reconstruction of what the real Jesus might actually have looked like. Nothing like what you see in art and stained glass windows, that's for sure, and the show speculated that it was probably that Jesus in fact had short hair. Their idea was based on archaeological evidence, art dating from the time and place of Jesus depicting men and hairstyles, etc.

2007-05-12 14:40:08 · answer #2 · answered by spibbles 1 · 0 0

In the time of Jesus, if one took a Nazerite vow they were to remain celibate, not cut their hair, maintain strict diet guidelines as well as other things. This is the same vow that Samson took with his long hair. It designated that you were set apart for the Lord only. This is why Jesus had long hair.

2007-05-12 14:38:35 · answer #3 · answered by Midge 7 · 0 0

Most people assume that Jesus had long hair. After all, that's the way they've always seen Him portrayed in every painting, drawing or movie. That's the only Jesus they've ever seen. But are those depictions accurate?

The fact is, we don't know what Jesus looked like, because the first depictions of Him weren't done until hundreds of years later. Thus every image we've ever seen of Him is based on nothing but the artists' imaginations.

While we don't know what Jesus looked like, we do know that He didn't look like the common depictions of Him with long hair. After all, this same Jesus inspired the apostle Paul to write in 1 Corinthians 11:14: "Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?"

In addition to this instruction regarding long hair on men, the Bible also contains circumstantial evidence that Jesus didn't have long hair.

Perhaps the most telling is that when Judas betrayed Jesus, he had to identify Jesus by a kiss. That was the prearranged signal Judas had given so that the guards could identify Jesus. Why did Judas have to do that? Because Jesus looked just like any average man of His day, and they wouldn't have been able to identify Him if Judas hadn't betrayed Him with a kiss.

This incident shows us that Jesus looked like any ordinary, average Jew of His day; there was nothing distinguishing about Him. The messianic prophecy of Isaiah 53:2 (NIV) says of Him: "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him."

The Gospels tell us that on at least two occasions Jesus slipped away into the crowds when people were trying to kill Him (Luke 4:30; John 8:59). He was able to escape harm because He was simply an average-looking man of His day and blended in with the other people around Him.

A Feb. 24, 2004, Associated Press article reports: "'Jesus didn't have long hair,' said physical anthropologist Joe Zias, who has studied hundreds of skeletons found in archaeological digs in Jerusalem. 'Jewish men back in antiquity did not have long hair.' 'The Jewish texts ridiculed long hair as something Roman or Greek,' said New York University's Lawrence Schiffman" ("Jesus Scholars Find Fault in Gibson's 'Passion'"). However, it wasn't at all typical among even the Greeks and Romans, as plenty of statues and coins from the time attest.

"Along with extensive writings from the period, experts also point to a frieze on Rome's Arch of Titus, erected after Jerusalem was captured in AD 70 to celebrate the victory, which shows Jewish men with short hair taken into captivity" (ibid.).

Jesus wasn't the tender, effeminate man with a somewhat angelic appearance as commonly depicted in paintings. He was a carpenter, a builder, a man who knew the construction trade. He knew how to cut down trees and make wooden beams, to haul rocks to build walls, to construct buildings from stone and timber.

The Gospels make it clear that He spent a lot of time outdoors. He hung out with fishermen, the kind of characters who would never respect and look up to a weakling. Yet Jesus had 12 disciples who followed Him everywhere He went and who in time died for Him. They knew Him as a real man, not the fabrication we see in so many paintings.

2007-05-12 14:33:54 · answer #4 · answered by TIAT 6 · 0 0

Jesus did not have long hair. In fact the Bible does not describe Jesus' appearance. The only vague mention of his appearance is found in Isaiah 53:2b

...he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

2007-05-12 14:23:53 · answer #5 · answered by Brian 5 · 1 0

Where does it say Jesus had long hair? It doesnt.

2007-05-12 14:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0 1

who says he does? Who knows what jesus looks like. alot of movies and paintings portray what they think he may look like. Example- most all pictures show jesus as being white but in reality jesus was a jew and jews had olive colored skin not white.

2007-05-12 14:24:14 · answer #7 · answered by starynight39 4 · 0 0

If you see "pictures" of Jesus, they are just someone's idea of how Jesus might have looked.
We really don't know what his physical appearance was.

2007-05-12 14:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by nowyouknow 7 · 0 0

Because back in those days Jewish people were instructed not to cut their hair. If you read the First Testament then you will learn all about this.

2007-05-12 14:23:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 1 0

Because people back then had long hair.

2007-05-12 14:22:46 · answer #10 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 3 0

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