[2banana]

Jesus was a Jew from the Middle East. Pretty easy to guess what color he was...(hint - it was not black or white).

[hardworking]

Jesus was a Jew from the Middle East. Pretty easy to guess what color he was..

And man, imagine his NOSE!

[El Gato]

Jesus was a Jew from the Middle East. Pretty easy to guess what color he was..

Yes, He probably looked more or less like a Sephardic Jews Jew. But maybe not as much like modern Sephardim as you might think. Lots of things change in 2000 years. Many of them trace their lineage through the Ottoman empire and/or Spain. Some mixing there.

But as someone else wrote: Who cares. What he was is infintely more important than what he looked like.

[Mila]

Several black Catholic churches in New Orleans, portray Jesus as black. One in particular had a large crucifix with the figure of a black Jesus on it. I couldn't say if they actually thought that Jesus was a black man or not. The vestments at the church that I am thinking of were of African-American design as well. When I was a child, a while back in Catholic school, we were sometimes visited by missionary nuns who told us stories about the exotic areas in which they worked. It was not unusual that when they left they handed out holy cards that depicted Jesus, various saints, and the Blessed Mother(on the order of the picture below) in the ethnicity of the people in those far off countries. As kids we found it fascinating. I think that it sometimes helps people, particularly when they are new Christians just learning the faith, if Jesus, his mother, and others are pictured with the distinct characterics of their own culture. Check out this native American Jesus.