What did Jesus look like?

Nobody knows exactly what Jesus looked like.  Based on where he grew up, he probably had brown hair and dark eyes.  His skin would have been some shade of brown.  He probably had a beard since most Jewish men in that place and time wore beards.  We don't know if Jesus was short or tall.  He could have been handsome or very plain.  He did a lot of walking so it's hard to imagine that he was fat, but was he skinny? 

A lot of people have created artwork that portrays the face of Jesus. What kinds of things do you suppose the artists were saying about Jesus in these pictures?

Were they trying to show what they think Jesus looked like or were they trying to say something about the kind of person that Jesus was?

One interesting thing about art is that people make pictures of Jesus that look like the people in their part of the world.  Depending on who created the picture, Jesus may be African or Japanese or European. He may look like a Native American or a man from India.

It's kind of cool that there are no descriptions of what Jesus looked like in the Bible.  Instead we can use our imaginations just like all the artists who have created pictures of the face of Jesus.  Use the comments section to describe the way you imagine what Jesus looked like.