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Does anyone know in what chapter/verse, where it states what Jesus looked like? I remeber it said something about him having raven black hair and olive colored skin, Im pretty sure, of this, thanks guys! Look for a few more "Bible expert's questions" shortley! I am always asking these questions!
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Answer 1

There is no verse in the bible that says what Jesus looked like.

Jesus the Christ was both a carpenter, a mason, and a Scholar- when he was 12 years old, he engaged the Pharases and the Sadduccess in debates (Matthew about the 7th chapter give or take a bit)

However- we know that the people who work outside in the sun for their whole lifes, in dessert enviroments are usually quite brown. Their hair can be quite dark in response to being outside- and yet, the sun will bleach part of it. Most people of that area have brown or black eyes.

Therefore, Jesus probably had either very dark brown skin or very light black skin. His hair was probably curly, and dark- probably had a few light streaks. His eyes would have been dark- which would have been part of his bloodline.

Jesus's body would have been lean, strong, muscular- cutting down trees, planeing wood, and building things and buildings isn't for weaklings.

Answer 2

Somebody out there is putting out that all people living in the Middle East had a small variance of how there looked. They only had to have dark hair, for instance. Or they all had to have olive skin, unless they were from Africa.

But that's not what I get from scripture. What I get from scripture is that King David was 'ruddy and fair'. The Hebrew word for fair means 'good complexion' so that can mean any skin color - it was just pleasing i9n appearance, but 'ruddy' means 'red'. There is hardly a variance to the word to described 'ruddy'.

So since red hair was also a part of that portion of the Middle East, why couldn't have Jesus' hair have been red?

One thing I try to keep in mind is: There really is no description of Jesus other than that there was no special beauty, no aura around him. And if he were really tall, or really short, or he had some kind of remarkable feature not typically found in the people he represented, something would have been written about it. But I think that Jesus was in appearance about like most other people there in Israel.

So I think that I am satisfied with all of that, I don't need any more than what I have on that. And so I tend to get bored of the subject. I only answered because I hope that people get beyond the superficial physical aspect of Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

It's not in the regular Bible. I do not normally study the Apocrypha.



I doubt he had long hair because the apostle Paul said it is a disgrace for a man to have long hair.

Answer 4

We do not know what He looked like when He came to be crucified, other than those general descriptions others have cited from the Bible. (BTW: there is no "Gospel of Pilate" in the bible.)

However, as others have mentioned, John in Rev 1:13-16 gave an excellent attempt to describe in words the indescribable glorious visage of the risen Christ in Heaven: the one we will all see when He returns in glory!

...and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

Answer 5

Not olive skin. Why do whites never want to accredit Jesus to looking as he did "back then"?

Whites want him to be stringy, greasy haired, with a drooping body resembling that of a dirty hippy who looks like he's on drugs, with white skin.

He did not look like this but was very dark skinned, Black, with hair like "lamb's wool".

I know I cannot wait until Armageddon because all racists and their constant need to teach lies will be destroyed permanently. That will be most of the U.S. thankfully, and 90% of the world's population in a whole. No more racism and portraying Jesus as a "tanned, olive skinned" man. Whites get tans so they want Jesus to be white, and they may accept that he "got a tan" having olive skin.

Stop this racism. Just stop it!

Answer 6

To my knowledge, there is no complete physical description of Jesus in the Bible. One could assume that because Jesus's birthplace was Nazareth, that he had a "swarthy" complexion, and was dark haired; but he could have been fair-haired with blue eyes. I don't believe his physical appearance has anything to do with those who truly believe.

Answer 7

There is no description of what Jesus might have looked like from anyone who would have been alive to see him at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived. Similarly, there is not one word he might ever have spoken that was written down by anyone who could have been there. Yet, many of the statements attributed to Jesus claim to have come from him when he was alone – how do figure that?

No one knows who actually wrote any of Gospels and, whoever they were; even they never claim to have met the earthly Jesus. Moreover, the original manuscripts do not even exist. The earliest is probably Mark (70 C.E.), although no one knows who wrote it, where they wrote it, or exactly when they wrote it. Paul's biblical letters are the oldest surviving Christian texts (60 C.E.), and even he never claims to have met or seen an earthly Jesus. Neither does he give any reference to Jesus' life on earth.

Answer 8

The only description of him was written seven hundred of years before Isaiah 53:2-3 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him

Answer 9

In Isaiah 53: 2 it Says:
"And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:"

Answer 10

The closest thing we get to a description is in Isaiah 53:2b, “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.” All this tells us is that Jesus’ appearance was just like any other man's – He was ordinary-looking.