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"One thing is, he sure didn’t wear clerical garb and all the high-fallootin’ stuff that priests, bishops and the Pope wearm and would have been aghast at any suggestion to do so."

This opinion of yours, I think, diverges from Biblical imagery, considering that the Son of Man is visibly seen by the prophets as being resplendently vested: in Daniel, in Ezekiel if my memory serves me well, and especially in Revelation.

Keep in mind that the priestly vestments of the OT were specifically mandated by Almighty God in the Torah, and in exacting detail, too. If Christ is our Great High Priest (Hebrews 4:14-16, 9:12)it is appropriate to portray Him vested as such. This shows His unique priesthood in the New Testament, as prophesied and foreshadowed by the figures of the Old.

There is a striking note to the OT dress and it is that ‘blue’ was a color worn by the priests in the OT.
Blue was the color to remind Israel of His Commandments.

no blue in Revelation when describing the clothes of the ‘woman’ in Rev 17..not an accident.

that fits with Revelation 13 and the breaking of His Commandments.
and in Revelation 14 when the patience of the saints is the keeping of the Commandments of God and faith of Jesus.

That should help to test and prove who might be blue and who might be blueless in the end times..

Yes, the OLD TESTAMENT.

There is no order of priesthood assigned to or for believers in the NT and there is no instruction about dress.

Jesus is our great high priest and HE is all we need.

I think that the FACTS; found in the Bible that ROME assembled; show that while on EARTH Jesus wore; at the most 'splendid'; a one piece garment.

Intimately familiar with the OT priestly garb (AND Tabernacle and TEmple) that God gave to the Jews.

Everything Jewish was outward and physical - an outward demonstration of a spiritual reality in the heavenlies.

Sadly, the Jews missed the spiritual reality that everything symbolized, and became a dead, God-rejecting people who were sticklers for the details of the outward while totally contradicting the spiritual reality. That is clear in all of Christ’s words to them and their leaders.

When Christ came, He did away with outward and external (see St. Paul’s epistles) and replaced it with the spiritual reality - stating many times that the external show was irrelevant, and the inward spiritual reality was what counted in the eternal and spiritual realm.

So many evidences of this - a major one in how He dressed Himself, and his choosing his disciples from the lowly.

The external requirements for the Jews were never passed on to the Christians. See Acts 15 for example. The whole of the NT is an emphasis on spiritual reality, not external looks.

Not wishing to argue, just sharing my (and that of millions of others) view........