What do you think? I think he was tanned because he lived around the Middle East. I was just wondering what do you guys/girls think....?
2007-11-07 08:11:50 · 39 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't matter if he was Black, White or any other colour!
2007-11-07 08:17:09 · update #1
Oracle: Yeah, I've noticed that too! My black friends tell me his black and my white friends tell me his white! Then Asians tell me he was Brown
2007-11-07 08:21:24 · update #2
Instersting question just because when I went to a church with White congregation , Jesus statue was white, in a Black Church it was Black and once I went to a Catholic Church in India and it was brown.
2007-11-07 08:18:57 · answer #1 · answered by Oracle 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Most likely Middle Eastern (many look mulatto). But His ancestors were captive to the Egyptians who were probably still black. His family also escaped to Egypt from Herod. How did they fit in? Being a carpenter's son meant being out in the hot desert sun. And this was long before Jews began to mingle with Europeans. Also there are Madonna statues with the baby 'Jesus' held sacred all over Europe. These statues are black. Some have had the paint literally kissed off of them.
I've also seen a coin from a British museum with a depiction of a Roman emperor Justinian on the front and obviously Caucasian. The man on the other side was carrying a scroll, had a cross behind him, and had a curly fro. Many Israeli Jews still have fros. These are African attributes. He also spoke Afro-Semitic. So, who knows?
I do know that He shed His red blood for the sins of all mankind regardless of our color.
2007-11-07 08:29:46 · answer #2 · answered by F'sho 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was a Jew and as such would have looked like any other Jewish man who was living in the Middle East. Dark hair, swarthy skin, and brown or blue eyes.
2007-11-07 08:17:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that he was Middle Eastern or Arabian. I think this becuase well thats where he was from. Also he was Jewish, not Christian becuase Christianity was based after him.
Omg i totally did not just read your extra info until now. But i guess we have the same opinions.
i love answering your questions cuz im bangali and muslim too, but i live in the usa and and 15
2007-11-07 09:18:57 · answer #4 · answered by Nishi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most probably he looked like the Palestinians, as he lived in Palestine!
It feels funny to see all these drawings of Jesus and the Virgin as white skinned, blue eyed!! These painters didn't have a clue!
2007-11-07 08:41:20 · answer #5 · answered by Abu Ahmad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a Jewish citizen of Nazareth, in Judea. He was semitic as were all the locally born people of that area.
2007-11-07 09:16:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think he was eitheir I think he was middle eastern, oh well doesnt really matter in the long scheme of it all. To be honest when i think of him i think of him as white, but i suppose evryone has their own version
2007-11-07 08:19:59 · answer #7 · answered by Annie A 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Somewhere in between, but closer to white than black. Like you said, it doesn't really matter.
God bless.
2007-11-07 08:20:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was a Semitic Jew. He spent a lot of time outside travelling by foot. He was probably dark brown.
2007-11-07 08:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by Gal from Yellow Flat 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus, who is the PRINCE of Peace, was Jewish, and as such was darker skinned, but not black.
2007-11-07 08:16:16 · answer #10 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋