What did Jesus look like?

This clip is from our Interview with Dr. Ben Witherington on the Historical Jesus: What did Jesus look like?

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[smartzazi]

Middle Eastern

[TheMrgoku1985]

5 ft. 1 in

110 pounds

[swissb3ats]

Christ was negro just like the description tacticus gave during the seige of judah. Arabs didn't invade untill 600 years later. Does the caucasians in America make them the origional people of America ? Come on now think.

[PAWLIE68]

Yeshua Mkheetha was an Aramaic Speaking Jew from Israel. As such, he was certainly NOT a White or Black man. He would almost cetainly have looked like Middle Eastern Jews do today. Olive Skin,black or dark brown hair, Aquiline Nose, dark eyes. Look at any Middle Eastern Semite today; particularly Mid eastern Jews Assyrians, Syriacs etc...thats his general appearance. There is no logical reason why an Aramaic speaking Jew from the Mid East would look White or Black. Shlama!

[irendelle]

Why ask secular sources and be left guessing as to HOW Jesus (Yeshua) looked like? Go to theMAIN source--The Bible! As for His outward appearance, the prophet Isaiah is explicit when he wrote that He---(that is, Yeshua): "had NO form or comeliness---" the Complete Jewish Bible renders it: "he was NOT well formed or especially handsome" (Isa. 53:2). Moreover, Yeshua didn't wear long hair. For nature (not just Jewish custom) tells US that it is an ABOMINATION for a man to have so. (1 Cor. 11:14)

[winterstellar]

@DiminishedStudios No, so why don't you try to find ONE example of the laws of physics ever being broken? NO anecdotes, no stories, but proof? It can't be done and it couldn't be done yesterday either

[DiminishedStudios]

@winterstellar also your physics argument doesn't work. Nobody is claiming that Jesus found a loophole in the laws of physics. If there is a God then it is possible that he could manipulate the rules. Nobody is trying to argue that there are naturalistic explanations for the miracles of Jesus.

[DiminishedStudios]

@winterstellar Yeah, obviously you are not a historian. There are plenty of people who do not believe that Jesus was the real messiah, but still acknowledge that he existed. To deny it is to admit that your historical opinion is intellectually bankrupt.

[winterstellar]

He most likely never even existed for real. The stories about him are just new versions of older fairy-tales about other "deities". And anyway, the laws of physics were exactly the same 2000yrs ago, nobody had supernatural powers then and nobody has them now. Snap out of it, it's 2012 now, not the firiggin bronze-age! : )

[RandomlyAnimated]

@TheAngelinemusic LOL! NOONE said Jesus was the first man, that's ignorance for there was Adam and Eve. Jesus, inspired his disciples and many others, we know he exist because there is Biblical and Scientific evidence he did. Just as anyone else, his life was ' recorded '. Be smart. Go to school. Learn something kid.

[TheAngelinemusic]

this pic of jesus are not real. and how did u know jesus exist? and u al never even met him and how come there's pics of him even long long billions years on earth exist till now? and u say that jesus was the first man?