I didn’t know Jesus was black, but then being Hebrew, I doubt he had blond hair and blue eyes either.
While I think Christ and the apostles were probably Mediterranean, there are iconoclastic paintings that go way back that possibly shows them as black.
“I didn’t know Jesus was black, but then being Hebrew, I doubt he had blond hair and blue eyes either.”
Given that the area was part of the Hellenistic world since the days of Alexander the Great, it’s not beyond the pale of possibility. However, no contemporary reports call him a blonde.
Jesus played in a grainery.
The first early pictorial representation of Jesus had him with blond hair.
He’s been described as with reddish hair and grey eyes or golden colored hair if you trust the sources.
http://www.thenazareneway.com/likeness_of_our_saviour.htm