[Red Badger]

70 inches, 5’10”, a little tall for a Jewish carpenter from 2000 years ago?.........

[BGHater]

I would add that most famous and important figures in History, well our History have been above avg. in height. ie Washington, Lincoln.

Besides, Jesus came from an extremely wealthy family and could have eaten whatever he wanted for nourishment.

[ASA Vet]

70 inches, 5’10”, a little tall for a Jewish carpenter from 2000 years ago?

Don't forget he was supposedly stretched.

[svcw]

Why?

[burroak]

70 inches, 5’10”, a little tall for a Jewish carpenter from 2000 years ago?.........

But not for the Son of God.

[Brilliant]

Seems tall for the middle ages, too. Unless you wrap them after they’ve been stretched on the rack.

[Swordmaker]

70 inches, 5’10”, a little tall for a Jewish carpenter from 2000 years ago?.........

Actually, no. Studies done by archaeologists of bodies found in 1st Century Jewish cemeteries in Jerusalem show that the average height of male skeletons is only 3/8 of an inch shorter than average modern American males (5' 8.5"). A height of 5'10" is well within the normal range of variation.

"A more recent excavation in Meiron in the area of Galilee, more skeletal remains from the 1st through the 4th centuries, revealed an adult male height average of five feet nine inches."

Average height of Romans of the period was a little less.

[BillT]

It does not matter, Isaiah prophesied that Jesus’s beard was pulled out by the roots. The shroud was a perfectly trimmed beard.

It is not Jesus!

[fproy2222]

70 inches, 5’10”, a little tall for a Jewish carpenter from 2000 years ago?.........

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People looked up to Jesus, even then ;.)