Dear Family,

Today is Wednesday, April 8, 2026. Today is Day 4 of Week 1 in our Count to Pentecost.

There is very little in Scripture to indicate what the Human Jesus looked like nor what His personality was really like. Scripture only gives us a few hints about Jesus’ physical look and dress. It appears that there is a bit more of a direct description and detail about John the Baptist’s look, his dress, and the kind of food he ate (Matthew 3:4). We simply do not know how tall Jesus was, nor even the color of His hair and eyes.

Throughout the last 2000 years, much of what has been painted as portraits of Jesus shows a frail, effeminate man with very weak, soft looking features and long hair. Certainly, that depiction of Jesus does not take into account that Jesus is described as traveling on tough journeys by foot for many miles across Judea and Galilee. Apparently, He and His disciples slept outside and walked in sunshine. His skin may have been quite tanned; and, He may have been as muscled as any of His disciples as He is described as a carpenter from Nazareth.

Below are a few of the places where the physical appearance of Jesus is mentioned to some degree:

(1) He probably looked like a typical Jewish man of His day and was able to slip through a crowd of Jews and had to be identified when He was arrested.
Luke 4:29-30 And rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went His way.
Matthew 26:48 Now he that betrayed Him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is He: hold Him fast.

(2) Apparently, Jesus was not especially handsome.
Isaiah 53:2 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

(3) He wore a beard. His tormentors ripped His beard away from His face.
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

(4) He likely had short hair.
1 Corinthians11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

As true Disciples of Jesus and serious Bible students, we can be comforted to know that God inspired the Bible as we have it today. God will tell us what we need to know in His time and in His sequence. And, one day, we will all finally get to see the face of our Savior. Today, Jesus is described for us in Revelation.

Revelation 1:14-15 (14) His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; (15) And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters.

Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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