I don’t know what you mean by weird body, but I was thinking of Jesus perhaps looking more muslim, maybe. I don’t know. More brownish, not necessarily dark, but then again, Africa is just across the sea, so, maybe. Although, I didn’t realize Jesus was in Rome. Jesus was in Rome? When was Jesus in Rome?
Um, he was not brown-skinner or black-skinned. Since he was Semitic, he is best described as yellow/olive in skin tone – not fair-Northern-European (pink/beige), but supposedly not the opposite either. Visionary literature includes hair tones ranging from light (sandy) brown to dark brown, but the former could be the effect of the His standing within strong reflected light during those visions. Similarly, eye color from visionary literature varies. Faustina has Him with dark brown eyes. Several others who have experienced visions have encountered blue-green eyes.
It’s just that I’d rather be surprised. 
What do you mean by opposite? Is there an issue with describing typical middle-eastern skin tone as being brown?
When I say brown, I do not mean dark brown. There are many shades of skin colour that can be described as brown, including most of the indigenous people’s of the middle-east. People I know who hail from that region describe their own skin colour as ‘brown’.
I agree. What Jesus looked liked is irrelevant, what matters is the message he brought to us.
I’m asking since every portrait I see of him He is white. Why don’t painters give him more color?Personally, I think it’s meaningless what He looks like. This is not to knock the OP.
With regard to his skin colour, then probably, although, based on what we can gather from evidence of the typical people of that region at that time, he probably did not have long hair and a long beard, and as he was of unremarkable appearance he would not have been 6’4" tall.
(Pondering. Taking Inventory)
God is Middle-Eastern? I mean, I know *Mary *was a nice Jewish girl, but his dad…
Because much of the art that we see today was created in Medieval/Renaissance Europe. Byzantine art was probably *closer *to what Jesus *possibly *looked like than Victorian art, surely. Again, it’s clear that he wasn’t a white man with blue eyes.
He had shoulder-length hair. That was the default hair length of Mediterraneean Jews in First Century Palestine. They distinguished themselves from the short-cropped hair of the Romans in that way. They also did not wear their har way down their back (or long beards). They had shoulder-length hair. And virtually ALL of the visionary literature depicts the same.
There’s an issue with accuracy. I have known many many Middle-Easterners. Also, there is a mistaken notion that there is, and has always been, a uniformly dark look (hair, eyes) of the Middle East. Semitic peoples have had variations. There were also lighter-eyed people in the same area, even though dark eyes predominated.
No,that was not my point, and not Jesus’ point. His point was a personal relationship because to “know” Him was to know the Father.
That’s nice. I don’t.
He did not have super-long hair and a long scraggly beard. That doesn’t square with the anthropology of ancient Palestine. Just because he didn’t look like some Nordic Aryan does not mean he looked like OBL. It’s just another false dichotomy. He looked like neither, but I actually prefer these comments.
Educated guesses. Possibly true. And yet … Jesus was Jewish. And some Jews (some you might know of even) are fair skinned. And blue eyed. And red haired. As well as dark haired and dark eyes. Jews migrated everywhere after 70 AD and the Roman destruction of the Temple.
