I believe that we will be shocked on the day that we see Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Hopefully you will see Him on the day of His return as your Savior and not as your Judge, but we\u2019ll discuss that later but right now we are asking if Jesus had long hair<\/a>.\u00a0 The Bible is silent on the length of His hair but there is no reason to believe that He had the long, flowing locks of hair that the movies portrayed Him as having or the thousands of pictures that display Him with long hair.\u00a0 Jews of the day never wore their hair long.\u00a0 In fact Paul knew that it was customarily a shame for a man to have long hair (1 Cor 11:14) and knowing that Jesus was a carpenter, having long hair would have gotten in the way of His work.<\/p>\n Jesus was not the effeminate looking man that most images reveal Him as.\u00a0 He was a carpenter and carpenters in those days not only worked with wood, they worked with stones.\u00a0 They had no power tools of course so the wood had to be cut by using hand tools and great physical labor which must have took long, tedious hours to work with.\u00a0 The wood was not like what we see today; two by fours or four by sixes.\u00a0 They worked with large timbers of roughhewn wood.\u00a0 \u00a0These timbers had to be cut down by hand and they had to be sawed down into workable sections.\u00a0 They had to be debarked and sanded.\u00a0 And carpenters in those days worked with stone more than they did wooden beams.\u00a0 And these stones were just not simple stepping stones or mortar bricks but more like boulders and these boulders had to be chiseled and cut down to size.\u00a0 Every bit of the carpenters work was extremely labor intensive and so we should realize that Jesus had to have been a big, strong man with great physical strength, yet He kept this strength under control in what is a good description of meekness:\u00a0 Strength under control.\u00a0 So we see that Jesus was a man\u2019s man and may have had the body of a heavy construction worker.\u00a0 He must have been an imposing physical specimen.<\/p>\n Time and time again, the New Testament records that Jesus slipped away into the crowds and that the religious officials, when looking for Him, frequently couldn\u2019t find Him?\u00a0 Why was this so?\u00a0 Because Jesus must have looked much like any other rabbi of the day with a robe yes, but not with the long hair that we think He wore.\u00a0 There are dozens of accounts where Jesus simply slipped away and blended into the crowds:<\/p>\n John 5:13 \u201cNow the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Luke 4:30 \u201cbut he slipped away through the crowd and left them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n John 7:11 \u201cThe Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, \u201cWhere is he?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n John 11:56 \u201cThey were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, \u201cWhat do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If Jesus<\/a> had a long, white flowing robe and He had long hair, He would have been easy to spot, since historical accounts show that the Jews in Jesus\u2019 day had short hair. He likely had a beard but so did many of the Jewish men in that day.\u00a0\u00a0 There is every indication that Jesus was hard to pick out of a crowd but when He wanted to be seen, He was able to make Himself visible.<\/p>\n Isaiah described Jesus as looking like an ordinary man and that there nothing special in His appearance that would make Him stand out.\u00a0 Isaiah described Him in 53: 2b \u201che had no form or majesty that we should look at him,\u00a0and no beauty that we should desire him.\u201d<\/span> \u00a0He wouldn\u2019t fit in well with the prosperity preachers on TV.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t make a popular itinerant preacher today.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t be getting millions of hits on YouTube.\u00a0 This is because Jesus was not especially handsome and there was \u201cnothing special in His appearance that would make Him stand out\u201d which matches with the many New Testament references of Him easily slipping through the crowds.\u00a0 He was not desirous to look upon nor had no beauty (in the Jewish vernacular this means that He wasn\u2019t handsome).\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 humanity made Him out to be no different looking than any other man of the day.\u00a0 Otherwise, we really don\u2019t know what Jesus looked like other than He was an ordinary looking man, that He was strong and extremely physically fit and that He was able to blend in with the crowds very easily.\u00a0 The Bible is silent on exactly what He looked like and if the Bible is silent on His exact appearance, then God apparently doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s important for us to know.<\/p>\n We do know exactly what Jesus looks like\u2026at least today.\u00a0 Here is the only appearance of Jesus that anyone needs to know for sure and since it\u2019s revealed in the Bible, God did think this was important enough for us to know.\u00a0 John describes Jesus and when he saw Him he fell down on his face as a dead man as we read in Revelation 1:13-18:<\/p>\n \u201cin the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.\u00a0<\/sup>The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his<\/sup> feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. \u00a0<\/sup>In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, \u201cFear not, I am the first and the last,\u00a0<\/sup>and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, \u201cFear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That is what Jesus looks like today.\u00a0 If you have failed to repent, there is still time but if you don\u2019t, He will appear to you as described above but He will be your Judge and it will not go well with your soul (Rev 20:11-15) but if He is your Savior today, your future is so amazing that I can\u2019t even describe it.\u00a0 Everyone will see Jesus someday and will know exactly what He looks like.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter what He looked like on earth but it will matter for all eternity what He looks like now.\u00a0 Today, He is your Judge or He is your Savior.\u00a0 It\u2019s your choice.<\/p>\n A good book to check out: 7 Biblical Signs Of The End Times<\/a><\/p>\n Jack Wellman is Senior Writer at What Christians Want to Know<\/a>\u00a0whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer\u2019s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus<\/a> or check out his book Blind Chance or Intelligent Design<\/a><\/p>\n photo credit: freestone<\/a> via photopin<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does Jesus look like what most pictures of Him reveal?\u00a0 Did Jesus have long hair and wear a white robe as the pictures and movies portray?\u00a0 Did He look different from the rest of the Jews or was He no different from those of His day? Did Jesus Have Long Hair? 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Did He Look Different from Fellow Jews?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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