Comments on: Was Jesus Ugly? Isaiah 53:2, 3b

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:27:16 +0000

willoh (#8),
I’ve seen depictions of Jesus as dark skinned. For us middle-class USAmerican anglos, it’s quite a shocker.

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:25:56 +0000

Preacherman (#7),
My Hebrew prof in seminary thought so (and he wasn’t being anti-Semitic either).

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:24:43 +0000

danae #6,
I had the same thought–maybe Paul looked a little like that 1st pic.

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:23:51 +0000

BrianW (#5)
And there is no Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. Sorry.

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:23:07 +0000

Ken (#3 and #4),
How dare you speak down on Sallmon’s ‘head of Christ’– “Jesus, the Breck Girl.” Deer in the headlights? Good one

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:21:11 +0000

Fred (#2),
Good insight about making Jesus appear a little too other-than- us.

By: John W Frye

John W Frye — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:20:07 +0000

Sue (#1),
I had a Hebrew prof who said, based on Isa. 53, that Jesus might have been physically repulsive. People did not hang on his every facial expression, but they hung on his every word.

By: willoh

willoh — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:08:10 +0000

We are a mixed race church. We had to get rid if the pictures of Aryan Jesus. Kids pick up on everything. I would like picture 1 if the guy didn’t look really really stoned.

By: preacherman

preacherman — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:29:55 +0000

John,
Wonderful post.
It is interesting to see the different pictures of Jesus.
I know from Isiah that he had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. So, I think he was one ugly looking Jew.

By: danae

danae — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:41:30 +0000

number 1.

its’ weird, because america has said that jesus looked pretty.

number reminds me more of a paul. hehe!