Scientists Create Model Of What Jesus Looked Like
It’s not what you expect.
According to the Gospel of Matthew, the Romans that arrested Jesus needed Judas Iscariot’s help to identify him because he looked like his disciples. Jesus is never described in the bible, nor can scientists use his remains to recreate his appearance using DNA.
However, using contextual clues from the Bible and historical data, Richard Neave, a medical artist retired from The University of Manchester in England, was able to help illustrate what Jesus might have looked like, Popular Mechanics reported. “It is clear that his features were typical of Galilean Semites of his era,” the report reads.
Neave and his team acquired Semite skulls from the area in and around Jerusalem with cooperation from Israeli archeologists. He then used a computer to give details on the skulls’ structure and how tissue would have sat on top of the bone. Using this data, Neave and his team built a 3D model of the face and cast it in clay.
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Suzanne McFly December 14th, 2015 at 17:57
Actually that is almost exactly what I would expect him to look like. I picture him skinnier though.
Richard Banville December 14th, 2015 at 18:20
The tallest men in those days were a.bit more than five and a half feet tall. Nowhere in scripture does it say that anyone thought that Jesus was especially tall. The tall lean Jesus is just as much fiction as the blond-blue eyed version.
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:46
with the diet in those days and all the exercise, definitely thinner.
Dwendt44 December 14th, 2015 at 17:58
WHAT? No blonde hair, No blue eyes??
True believers would quickly turn their nose up should they actually meet the historic figure.
He never bathed, never washed his hair, never brushed his teeth, wiped his butt with his bare hand (at least occasionally). He also likely had fleas and was married once for sure and likely twice.
ExPFCWintergreen December 14th, 2015 at 18:01
That ayun’t mah lordansave-yer! Hay-ull, that don’t even look Amurkan!
Boltorama December 14th, 2015 at 18:01
Oh my God this is just unacceptable! He doesn’t look like a real white American. He looks like some Hispanic or Arab!
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 18:04
A terrorist, the ammosexuals would shoot him and bury him with a pigs head
Boltorama December 14th, 2015 at 18:05
And he advocated socialist ideas like feeding the poor. Yep if he was alive today RWNJS would make quick work of him.
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 18:05
Yep!
Ronald Reagan! A Proud America December 14th, 2015 at 23:41
lol, hello mediaite reject.
alpacadaddy December 14th, 2015 at 18:19
There was a somewhat well-known 80’s punk song that proclaimed (correctly) that “if Jesus Christ was alive today, he’d be shot down dead by the CIA”… now days it would be the NRA and their Teabilly minions!
Boltorama December 14th, 2015 at 18:20
That’s totally on the money!
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 18:03
Look at that…hair of wool and skin of bronze
Boltorama December 14th, 2015 at 18:08
Well he kind of looks like a Viking. Except he wasn’t white and he lived in the desert.
William December 14th, 2015 at 18:08
Clearly not the Republican Jesus we have grown to love.
Boltorama December 14th, 2015 at 18:10
Yeah where’s his bald eagle tattoo and his Harley?
William December 14th, 2015 at 18:13
Today Jesus would be branded by the right as a socialist liberal who gives out free healthcare to deadbeats.
Boltorama December 14th, 2015 at 18:14
True I made a similar comment below.
amersham46 December 14th, 2015 at 18:39
No visible means of support,
Living with 12 other men
Preaching love and peace
Today he would be called a gay hippie living on food stamps
William December 14th, 2015 at 18:10
Boy oh boy. The people over at the fair and balanced network are gonna be pissed.
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 18:11
but meghan said he and santa are white…wah!
TheSpiffy December 14th, 2015 at 18:36
Tracey :)
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 19:41
hello spiff.
TheSpiffy December 14th, 2015 at 20:26
How are you?
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 20:28
I am good, Aren’t you usually at mediaite or ???
TheSpiffy December 14th, 2015 at 20:37
Yeah not much going on there at the moment. RS is slow this time of night. Sometimes I check into this site, but usually there aren’t many commenting ;/.
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 20:39
We are quiet, fun and not much in the way of trolls. Why not go to thehill?
TheSpiffy December 14th, 2015 at 20:43
Lol I’ve gone there a couple times. It’s crazy as bleep :))
Though if I get bored enough, I know there will be lots of posters.
rg9rts December 14th, 2015 at 23:00
Trouble is where you find it…try Latest.com
Larry Schmitt December 14th, 2015 at 18:39
And she elaborated: “He just is.”
tracey marie December 14th, 2015 at 19:41
laughing
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:42
of course.
and a republican -that’s why He goes around giving free stuff to good children and nothing to the not so pure Aryan WHITE kids!
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:40
well, duh! – only a drunken wasillian drop out quitter speeding in the tundra would actually believe Santa was an Inuit!
hell, they don’t even go to the north pole…
unless they’re taking the shortcut to grandma’s house.
StoneyCurtisll December 15th, 2015 at 11:43
A moment of classic stupidity~!
Gina Bousquet December 14th, 2015 at 18:19
Looks like the Palestinians that inhabit the land he came from. Nice!
FatRat December 14th, 2015 at 18:26
According to the Gospel of Matthew, the Romans that arrested Jesus needed Judas Iscariot’s help to identify him because he looked like his disciples.
I never thought of it in those terms. If Jesus looked like his crew than they were all looking like male models in an Abercrombie and Fitch store. Or conversely they were all plain, average and ordinary looking blokes, not turning heads when they walk past. Either way Jesus didn’t stick out in a crowd.
http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/1920×1280/a_c/abercrombie-and-fitch-store-models-vogue-25july13-pa.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1DiddWCKs
F_cons December 14th, 2015 at 18:33
I know I’m going to hell for this but if that’s what he/they looked like, I would so be on my knees “preying”. (Sorry, flag and remove)
FatRat December 14th, 2015 at 18:43
You aren’t the only one. I think Jesus has many (cough cough) admirers of both sexes. lol
http://www.wallpapersforgalaxys5.com/wp-content/uploads/Funny/Jesus%20Christ%20Santa%20Hat%20Wallpapers%20for%20Galaxy%20S5.jpg
Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy (Original Mix – 2006 Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ
http://valerietarico.com/2015/03/15/how-did-jesus-get-to-be-so-hot-where-popular-images-of-jesus-actually-came-from/
(Former Catholic, Julia Sweeney, jokes in her monologue, Letting Go of God, that the Jesus on her childhood bedroom wall helped her discover the pleasures of her own body.) The eyes of a standard American Jesus, whether brown or blue, are intense; his skin flawless; his features either aristocratic or classically masculine. Even on the cross, his muscles are well defined. In a culture that cares tremendously about youth and beauty, Jesus is a fine specimen of manhood.
F_cons December 14th, 2015 at 18:45
You’re killing me but if that’s where I go – thanks!
FatRat December 14th, 2015 at 18:47
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yZEEf2B2L.jpg
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:48
good boys go to heaven
bad boys go to south beach Miami.
Hirightnow December 14th, 2015 at 20:04
Always loved that song!
Dwendt44 December 14th, 2015 at 23:45
Them Jews all look alike./s
FatRat December 15th, 2015 at 10:52
lol
Popped into my head.
Weekend Update: Adam Sandler and the Hanukkah Song – Saturday Night Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5Z-HpHH9g&feature=youtu.be&t=93
Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli
Bowser from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzerelli
Paul Newman’s half Jewish, Goldie Hawn’s half too
Put them together, what a fine lookin’ Jew
Larry Schmitt December 14th, 2015 at 18:36
He would be on the no-fly list.
F_cons December 14th, 2015 at 18:37
If FatRats pic is correct – he wouldn’t need one
(express elevator to hell waiting for me)
Gina Bousquet December 14th, 2015 at 19:31
:)
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:32
doesn’t matter, he’s got his own ways of traveling in the air.
Larry Schmitt December 15th, 2015 at 07:09
Wait, are you talking about Jesus or Santa Claus?
amersham46 December 14th, 2015 at 18:36
OMG , he looks like a Muslim terrorist
Hirightnow December 14th, 2015 at 20:03
Well, according to the authorities at the time, He was a rabble-rouser intent on the subversion of the Law, and unconcerned about the consequences to the established leadership….
Larry Schmitt December 14th, 2015 at 18:40
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjc8IHEwtzJAhUGNSYKHZboBEgQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackhunt.net%2F2015%2F01%2F02%2Fnear-death-american-jesus%2F&psig=AFQjCNG4UyudwlATkxtmsJQgaP985yR-hQ&ust=1450222644107733
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:30
based on the fake Italian one no doubt.
Bunya December 14th, 2015 at 19:17
Mmmm, no. I mean, you’d think the son of God would make himself look like Brad Pitt, not like the guy who cleans the pool.
Obewon December 14th, 2015 at 19:33
Cheech? Or Chong are you Jewish? Both of you look like the reincarnation of the Son of Jehovah!
Hirightnow December 14th, 2015 at 19:58
{Sing along, won’t you, as Rabbi Billy Bob Weinstein of the First Reformed Evangelical Temple Mary-Beth Shalom in Nashville, TN sings us a song about the Lord}
Oh, Jesus was a Jew, you must admit it.
He had His own menorah and he lit it.
Jesus was a Jew….(How ’bout you?)
Oh,Jesus was a Jew,now ho ’bout you?
{Don’t forget to give generously as Saul and Jacob pass those collection plates around, friends, as we sing the second verse…y’all visitin’ goyim, don’t be shy, now…}
Oh,Jesus was a Jew, you must believe it.
If a restaurant served pork chops, He would leave it!
Jesus was a Jew….(Sammy Davis,too).
Oh,Jesus was a Jew, how ’bout you?
{I’d give good money to find that early nineties clip on the innerwebs…)
robert December 14th, 2015 at 20:10
Richard Neave, a medical artist retired from The University of
Manchester in England, was able to help illustrate what Jesus might have
looked like, Popular Mechanics reported.
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what’s a popular mechanic article without some trade related humor
StoneyCurtisll December 14th, 2015 at 20:10
Like this fella…
http://img.timeinc.net/time/personoftheyear/2004/memoriam/images/arafat_reflow.jpg
granpa.usthai December 14th, 2015 at 22:25
oh yea?
well then, where’s the cross on the neck chain then?
Dwendt44 December 14th, 2015 at 23:41
jesus wasn’t a christian.
dewired4u December 15th, 2015 at 00:00
whoa! that’s some heavy stuff that means Mohammad wasn’t a Muslim……
rg9rts December 14th, 2015 at 22:56
Oh man they’d have him on the no fly list in a second
ryan December 15th, 2015 at 02:43
This image is literally 20 years old. I mean……what? Can you please report on the Japanese’s bombing of Pearl Harbor as well?