Do You Realize?

Question

That Jesus did not have anything exceptional in outward appearance that made people cling to Him?

Isaiah 53 says:
1 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 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.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

-Jesus was a normal person as people followed Him because of their "belief" that He is God, and that He is their Savior! Jesus may of looked normal, nothing amazing in physical appearance, BUT He Himself was indeed AMAZING! And He still IS! He is our Lord and Savior! How awesome it is to know that the power of God is what drew people to Him, just as today (wait for it)

Just as today God draws us to HIM through the hearing of His word! The gospel of Jesus Christ! (John 6:44)

And Isaiah 53 continues to say:
4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

Catholic Crusader : Ephesians 2:8-9
and 1 Timothy 2:5, John 1:1, Romans 10

Answer 1

I think the fact that He didn't stand out by just His looks alone, caused a few to disregard Him as the Messiah. I say that because, many people expected Him, the King to come like a King would. He came as one of us - common people - yet without sin. Truly, He has experienced all mankind has including not being the stud nor the beauty queen!

Answer 2

Do you realize that Jesus also had those who quit following Him because they just wanted the free gifts he gave. But once He drawn the line in the sand with them, they left him,just as they do today. As long as the needs are met and the devil is kept underfoot some Christians have no problem following Jesus but you let them receive the words they speak and a little sickness, some money problems, instead of standing on the Promises of God, they give up and say Christianity isn't for them and they go back into the world living for the one who gave them their troubles to begin with..How foolish...God is so good and His mercy is from generation to generation, all to them who call upon His name..Listen, If the devil is causing you trouble, call out to Jesus, He gives power to the faint and to them who have no way out, He make a way where there seems no way..If you need healing, marriage restoration, money problems, problem with family, Jesus knows how to make the crooked path straight and give you peace along the way back to Him...Come who are thirsty, says the Lord, and I will give you rivers of living water..

Answer 3

Mibandi.. don't worry about the silly comments.

Yes and I believe He was not born of good looks, because His purpose wasn't to attract or lure people in by worldly standards would have it - attracts and encourages 'The In Crowd' and others, but to do the Will of our Heavenly Father.

Yes; Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

And how sad to think it was it was the people whom despised Him and us that he died for,
pretty humbling ay?

Thankyou for that reminder, as we see pictures of an Ok to almost hansome Jesus all the time.

hmmm...

Answer 4

Jesus' contemporary, a non-Christian historian, Josephus described Jesus as attractive. I read it with my own eyes!

St. Nicodemos in "A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel of Western Spirituality Proper Delights of the Mind", addresses the great delight of envisioning the physical appearance of Christ: "Think of those most pure eyes of Jesus, so calm, so sweet!"


Since no photographs of Jesus exist, artists have usually depicted him as a member of their own culture.

For example, white Europeans have often been depicted him with pale skin, angular features, blue eyes, a beard, and shoulder-length hair.

On the other hand, people from Oriental and African cultures have often pictured Jesus with darker or even black skin.

He was also a direct decedent of David and the Bible does give us a physical description of David.

Everyone is proud of (what God created them) their "race"; but don't get egotistical that Jesus might be YOUR race.

I say this to myself (as a born again Christian, but a Hebrew by race, born of a Jewish mom).

Race does not save anyone!!!!

The really important thing is not so much what He looked like, but what He said and did for us all.

When the bible said "Like one from whom men hide their faces" and so on, it might refer to his beaten face on the road to the cross,

Answer 5

Yes, indeed!
Sadly, people do not look for inward beauty, they look at the outward appearance, but God does look at the heart.

Jesus Christ, the sinless One, gave Himself as a ransom for many. How beautiful is that?

Answer 6

Definitly not a blue eyed, blonde wonder-babe.

Would it surprise you if you knew that some early writers of history thought Jesus may have been a hunch-back.

But you know what....

It was His death on the cross that matters the most...not how he appeared to you or me....just what He did at the cross...that's what matters the most.

Answer 7

Isa 53:10 "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, {see Galatians 3:16}, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand."

"Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him". It was told to me recently that for Jesus to leave heaven and come to earth would be in comparison to us leaving earth and going to hell.Yet it pleased Him to do it and suffer so.How could anyone possibly suggest that "if God loved us".

Answer 8

Only people who knew the Word of God recognized Him as who He was, God. And He had to give people spiritual "baby food " first for them to understand

Answer 9

Glory to God in the Highest!

Answer 10

Brethern,

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.