Hot, fit, attractive, and many others that really are not repeatable. All these words have been thrown into the Ask Jesus question box since the site launched. So we thought that we would look at the question of what we know about Jesus’ physical appearance?
The answer is; well, not a lot really. We don’t have any direct information in the Bible about what Jesus looked like. We can infer a few things but we know nothing for sure. We know that Jesus was a Jew born in the Middle East and so we can assume that he had dark hair and dark skin. We know that he spent the vast majority of his adult life working as a carpenter, so, again, we can imagine that he was a strong chap and probably a little rough around the edges.
He certainly was some way from being the fair skinned and feminine creation of renascence art made famous by the likes of Raphael and Michelangelo. It fairly safe to assume that the images that adorne Churches around the world bare no resemblance at all to the historical Jesus.
Was he attractive? Well, not much changes in human terms, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
