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Describe the physical appearance and generally how Jesus may have looked?
Describe the physical appearance and generally how Jesus may have looked?

The bible really does not say much about how Jesus`s appearance looked or his size and shape. By reference and making logical assumptions: We can read in the biographies of Jesus he was NOT born into royalty or wealth so he likely wore more common clothes.

Children were not afraid of Jesus so we can assume he was not too scary to look at. People seemed to like being with Jesus so we can assume he was healthy looking ''as many people distrusted deformities and sores that did not heal as signs of terrible fatal and contagious diseases''.

Most historians believe any Jewish man would had a beard in Jesus`s day. The peoples of the middle east typically had dark hair ''there were exceptions'', dark skin ''exceptions here too''.

We don`t know what he did for a living exactly. He did get some money ''gold'' from the wisemen ''Magi'' so he may not have needed to work. Except that Joseph ''his step father'' was a carpenter so Jesus could have learned to work with building materials. With this money his mother and step father may have lived in Egypt without working for many years influencing how Jesus looked.

There are several references to the messiah being beautiful in the old testament ''bright and morning star, fairer than 10, 000. You can find these references in the book of Psalms.

The book of Revelation of John ''from the author of the gospel of John'', describes Jesus as having eyes of fire, white woolen hair glowing like flames, and dressed in clean clothes with gold adornments. Later in the book Jesus may be depicted as a conqueror riding a white horse

the Bible does describe how he looked after being beaten by roman guards, saying he was no longer recognizable as a man ''perhaps meaning you could not tell it was Jesus buy looking at him''. Perhaps because of the beating or being bloody.

There were no paintings, drawings or etchings of Jesus completed in his life span. Images from artists after his death ''usually several hundred years'' vary from blond to black hair, tall to modestly short, strong to thin and lowly, mournful happy, stoic to thoughtful. Most modern western drawings depict Jesus as western European looking. These works of art are not very helpful in describing Jesus and often confuse people.

That is all I know.



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: My Blog
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What is the Kingdom of God?
Maybe it is not so much a what as a when. Jesus said his time had not yet come.



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Jesus Gives Good News: the Kingdom of God has Come to Earth
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What is the Kingdom of God?
The kingdom of God is the place you get to meet God



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Jesus Gives Good News: the Kingdom of God has Come to Earth
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What is the Kingdom of God?
The kingdom of God is everything God is King of.



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Jesus Gives Good News: the Kingdom of God has Come to Earth
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How does Jesus link intimacy to him with obedience to him? a New commandment?
a sign of love is obedience, which begets trust? then you gain intimacy? How did I do?



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Invite Me to be Close to You - Jesus
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If you had a one-on-one meal with Jesus, what would you discuss?
I have so many questions - I dont know where to begin.



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Invite Me to be Close to You - Jesus
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Why does Jesus call Love One Another a New commandment?
those he was speaking to learned the 10 commandments and his was the 11th?



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Love One Another - Jesus
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How does being forgiven increase ones love for God? Note: According to Jesus, God`s forgiveness is motivated by love.
I often hear people say, whay do I need to be forgiven? I seem to have this natural guilt meeter that tell me I have done something wrong. So I feel grrteful.



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Ask Jesus - He Says God Forgives You if You Ask
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What is the Kingdom of God?
anything the king says it is



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Jesus Gives Good News: the Kingdom of God has Come to Earth
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Does Jesus believe lowly people are valuable? How valuable?
seems like we might be so valuable to make sacrifices for, kind of like a parent for their child.



By: Victor Emmanuel
Category: Jesus Befriending and Promoting the Lowly
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