About 20 years ago Popular Mechanics had some forensic scientists develop a portrait of Jesus. This is what they came up with.

The Portrait of Jesus

About 20 years ago Popular Mechanics had some forensic scientists develop a portrait of Jesus. This is what they came up with.

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They don’t claim this is exactly what Jesus looked like, but it is supposed to represent a first century Galilean Jewish man around age 30. I posted the picture on a forum I follow and got a nasty response from another pastor that the picture looked like a cave man and couldn’t be at all what Jesus looked like. I think the truth of the matter was he was disturbed that Jesus was shown looking like a typical man from the Middle East rather than a European.

The Bible doesn’t describe Jesus, but one of the Suffering Servant Songs from Isaiah which Christians have long believed refer to Jesus says: “he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him” (Isaiah 53:2).

The reaction to the depiction of Jesus goes deeper. So often people would like to create Jesus in our own image. He would favor the things we like and oppose those things we don’t like. For example, most people would favor the Jesus who commands us to love God. But the Jesus who tells us to love our enemies can be a problem for many.

So, who is the Jesus we follow? We need to grasp the real Jesus, the Jesus revealed in Scripture to be true disciples.

Read Matthew 16:13-16 and remember: God loves YOU unconditionally.

Wayne