Comments on: Many Ways to Repaint Jesus

By: Sandra King

Sandra King — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:19:06 +0000

What Jesus looked like as He walked on earth really isn’t that important in my view. It is learning His ways and will so we can mirror His inner character is far more important. Jesus came through the Jews and did all that the Law required to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. He is far more than a Jewish man now in the Heavenly realm. John fell down on his face like a dead man when he saw Jesus in the spiritual realm. I believe that Jesus can reveal himself as any race since He is God and will be God forever.

By: Rena

Rena — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:10:11 +0000

I have a picture of Jesus praying in the Garden and have one where His skin is darker, eyes ever dark and a beard with a prayer shawl over his head. After reading the article I studied both closely and like the dark skined one best. I guess since a child and being told Jesus was Jewish in my heart that is how I see Him, good article and post also.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:06:02 +0000

Like most of these responses, I agree. I grew up with Jesus portrayed in my mind the same picture your parents have. However, now having the knowledge that Jesus was of Jewish decent, I would like to picture him differently. Either way, it’s cool how everyone has a different picture in their head of “their” Jesus. I don’t think it’s too much of a big deal of what we think he looked like rather than believe what he actually did.

By: Jason Curnick

Jason Curnick — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:40:15 +0000

It’s really interesting to see how the views of Jesus change from one culture to another. Rarely do you ever see Jesus portrayed in his Jewish context which is weird because that is the context which he lived in. I don’t think it’s that important to know exactly what he looked like but we should still view him in the Jewish context that he lived in.

By: Darcy

Darcy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:36:36 +0000

To see how everyone thinks that Jesus looks just a little different is very understandable. The sad thing is that many people want to take him out of the culture he grew up in. Also I think sometimes we stress to much what Jesus looks like and should focus more on sharing the gospel.

By: Casey Doezema

Casey Doezema — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:53:27 +0000

Its always interesting to me to see different cultures represent Christ’s image in different ways that are influenced by their culture and environment. I was fascinated to see da Vinci’s restored depiction of Christ and how it goes against every cultural indication.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:44:03 +0000

It’s interesting to see and dig deep into what Jesus actually may of looked like. It’s cool to see everyones different thoughts and opinions on this subject as well. In our discipleship class, taught by RVL, we dug into the text and talked a little about how Jesus may of looked, and it may not be the way we see the paintings today or how people see him today.

By: Kelsey Faber

Kelsey Faber — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:57:32 +0000

In this post, you talk about Da Vinci, because your book starts by talking about him as well. You say that Da Vinci’s work of the Last Supper is very wrong. Another painting you talk about is “The Jesus Of The People,” in which he doesn’t look Jewish at all. You talk about how different cultures view Jesus differently in order to understand him better, I like all of these ideas.

By: Taylor TenHarmsel

Taylor TenHarmsel — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:55:19 +0000

The last painting of Jesus on this blog is very much how I see Jesus. It wasn’t until RVL’s class that I learned these paintings are really off. The painting I see of Jesus isn’t a Jewish man, and Jesus was. It is crazy to actually try to picture what Jesus looked like in his age. I now have a different picture in my mind because of what we learned in RVL’s class.

By: Josh Maguire

Josh Maguire — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:25:42 +0000

It is pretty weird to think about how all the pictures in my house of Jesus are wrong. Makes me wonder if there are any other facts I have wrong about Jesus. Yet, this is all unimportant when it comes to trying to be like Jesus rather than look like him.

By: Wesley Machiela

Wesley Machiela — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:24:40 +0000

It is amazing how each culture changes Jesus so that we can relate to him. When we lose the context of Jesus, we lose the context of the Bible. Does this changing of his features help or hurt the Kingdom of Heaven? It makes it easier for people to relate and accept him, but it also changes the way we hear what he says.

By: Andrew Kollen

Andrew Kollen — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:14:41 +0000

What you say in this blog is very interesting. In my Discipleship class we just talked about what Jesus really may have looked like. In our culture, we see him as a man with blue eyes, and beard and long flowing hair, similar to your picture at the bottom of your post. When I think of Jesus, I really still think of Him like this. I know that it doesn’t look like a Jewish man, but that’s just what I think of. da Vanci really might have set this image of Jesus in our brains. This is what I grew up thinking of what Jesus looked like. It’s very interesting to think that he probably looked a lot different than this.