What Color Was Jesus? And Does It Really Matter

The truth of the matter is, I never really thought about it before. Until around Christmas time, that is. And I wanted to do a post about it then, but just was not able to get to it. And so, the questions in my mind came up again. What did Jesus look like? Was he black or white or brown? And does it really matter what he looked like. 

We have seen many over the years of what he might have looked like. But does the bible say anything about him, and if so where?  Consider Isaiah 53:2b

"He had no beauty that would attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that would should draw us to him.

With the due respect of those painters that create him as being very beautiful, well many of them just don't have it right, even though they can't paint someone truly as they are, if they have never even seen a picture of him and can only guess. 

That scripture proves to us that he was an ordinary, common human being while he was here walking the earth. There was nothing special about him and those that knew him as Jesus and accepted him as God's Son, did so without being drawn by his physic appearance. 

Really, why would anyone want to claim as their Savior, someone with ordinary looks? After all, the Jews had been looking for someone that would be wearing a crown at least.

Why are we drawn to people that are beautiful at times? Because we might be drawn to them for the wrong reasons, maybe? God didn't want people to be drawn to him for any other reason then that they wanted to accept and serve him as his Son. 

His appearance did change however. But not to one of beauty but of one of sheer horror. Isaiah 52:14 also describes him prior to his crucifixion.

"His appearance was so disfigured beyond of that of any man and his from marred beyond human likeness."

Mathew and John describes his appearance as he was beaten that day in Mathew 26:67. 27:30 and John 19:23. His looks were far beyond anything that we could ever imagine when those Roman Soldiers got done with him. 

And so what did he look like humanly and before that beating began. Next time we will go into that as well as why it might be important to know the truth of what he looked like. 

Thanks for coming Friends. God bless your day!