“THE PHYSICAL PORTRAIT OF JESUS”
The bible did not give us any physical description of Christ’s image. However, the closest descriptions we have of Him in comparison to his physical attributes is found in the book of Isaiah, chapter 53. Characteristically, the ancient Hebrews and Jewish race has dark brown or olive skin, with brown eyes, and dark brown or black hair. Jesus would have be like a normal North East African or a Middle-Easterner in his appearance. He would not look like the images which majority of people portrays today as the images of Jesus Christ, having blond, long, and light brown hair, with blue eyes and fair skin. In reading the scripture, this modern day portraits of Jesus, was similar to Biblical portraits of Lucifer. …show more content…
Paul was a Jew and an apostle of Christ in the early church, he knew exactly how the earlier Jewish men looked like, and also how Jesus looked like during His ministry on earth. He wrote to the church and said “Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame, disgrace or dishonor to him” (1 Corinthians 11:14). It’s very, very unlikely for Paul to address the church in such way, if the Jewish traditions allows their men to have long hair, and if Jesus Christ Himself had long hair. Paul been fully aware of the physical image and appearance of the early Jews, Apostles and the Lord himself, could not call their appearance shameful or disgraceful? It is important to know that this portrayal of Jesus in pictures is not what Jesus truly looked like. The disciples spent three years with Jesus, and his brothers who lived with him all throughout their lifetime had never written nor given us any detail on His physical appearance. However, in the references from the book of Isaiah which I mentioned earlier, the prophet gave us the exact descriptions on Jesus physical appearance. “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His …show more content…
In the Amplified Bible, it states that He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth, or have any esteem for Him (Isaiah 53:3). This means that Jesus came as an ordinary man who no one appreciates or desired to be around. The Roman soldiers that came to arrest Him could not tell which one was Jesus as he stood among his disciples until Judas Iscariot actually pointed him out with a kiss. He was physically much like his disciples that he had to identify himself two times to those who came to arrest him by saying “I am He whom you are looking for, I am He“ (Matthew 26:47-49, John 18:3-9). “And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 2:16-18). Jesus is a divine, the one who created the universe. He came to earth as a man and brought Himself to the ordinary, and took all the attributes and nature of the ordinary man. While on earth, He became a common man, and not only was He ordinary looking, He became subjected to the need of food and clothing as He also identified with the suffering of ordinary people (Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 4:15; Luke 22:28; Romans 8:3; Hebrews 5:8). He gave up his divine glory and attributes as God, and laid them aside for the short period of time in which He had to fulfill His earthly mission, and
The bible did not give us any physical description of Christ’s image. However, the closest descriptions we have of Him in comparison to his physical attributes is found in the book of Isaiah, chapter 53. Characteristically, the ancient Hebrews and Jewish race has dark brown or olive skin, with brown eyes, and dark brown or black hair. Jesus would have be like a normal North East African or a Middle-Easterner in his appearance. He would not look like the images which majority of people portrays today as the images of Jesus Christ, having blond, long, and light brown hair, with blue eyes and fair skin. In reading the scripture, this modern day portraits of Jesus, was similar to Biblical portraits of Lucifer. …show more content…
Paul was a Jew and an apostle of Christ in the early church, he knew exactly how the earlier Jewish men looked like, and also how Jesus looked like during His ministry on earth. He wrote to the church and said “Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame, disgrace or dishonor to him” (1 Corinthians 11:14). It’s very, very unlikely for Paul to address the church in such way, if the Jewish traditions allows their men to have long hair, and if Jesus Christ Himself had long hair. Paul been fully aware of the physical image and appearance of the early Jews, Apostles and the Lord himself, could not call their appearance shameful or disgraceful? It is important to know that this portrayal of Jesus in pictures is not what Jesus truly looked like. The disciples spent three years with Jesus, and his brothers who lived with him all throughout their lifetime had never written nor given us any detail on His physical appearance. However, in the references from the book of Isaiah which I mentioned earlier, the prophet gave us the exact descriptions on Jesus physical appearance. “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His …show more content…
In the Amplified Bible, it states that He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth, or have any esteem for Him (Isaiah 53:3). This means that Jesus came as an ordinary man who no one appreciates or desired to be around. The Roman soldiers that came to arrest Him could not tell which one was Jesus as he stood among his disciples until Judas Iscariot actually pointed him out with a kiss. He was physically much like his disciples that he had to identify himself two times to those who came to arrest him by saying “I am He whom you are looking for, I am He“ (Matthew 26:47-49, John 18:3-9). “And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 2:16-18). Jesus is a divine, the one who created the universe. He came to earth as a man and brought Himself to the ordinary, and took all the attributes and nature of the ordinary man. While on earth, He became a common man, and not only was He ordinary looking, He became subjected to the need of food and clothing as He also identified with the suffering of ordinary people (Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 4:15; Luke 22:28; Romans 8:3; Hebrews 5:8). He gave up his divine glory and attributes as God, and laid them aside for the short period of time in which He had to fulfill His earthly mission, and