What skin color did the Son of God, Jesus Christ, have? An exciting question. To answer this question, we need to know what race he belonged to. Jesus was the son of Mary. Mary was an ethnic Jew. This means Jesus belonged to the Jewish race. What do Jews look like? Today there are Jews of all skin and hair colors. This is because the Jew is a wanderer who wanders and wanders. And in the places where he arrived, he mixed. But what did the Jewish race look like in present-day Palestine in the first century CE? Answer: He looked like an ordinary present-day Palestinian. That is: black-haired, dark-eyed, and brown-skinned. All serious historians agree on this. The artist Bas Uterwijk also came up to this conclusion, using artificial intelligence to create an ordinary Jew from the first century CE present-day Palestine (Click here).

But not only historians and artificial intelligence, even the Bible confirms this. For example, King Solomon is described as a man with brown skin (ruddy means red-brown) and black curly hair (Click here). Therefore, one can strongly believe that Jesus must have looked the same, since King Solomon himself was Jewish and lived in present-day Palestine.

But why is Jesus primarily depicted as a white man with long hair? This is due to the Hellenism that was still strongly present among the Roman Christians. When the Romans converted to Christianity, they did not abandon their old religion but rather blended Hellenism with Christianity, which is why they created an image of Jesus that resembles the Hellenistic gods. Jesus certainly didn't have long hair, because that's a disgrace for a man (1Cor 11:14-15). Jesus had short, curly black hair and a full beard. Among the Jews, a full beard is considered a man's honor, which is why the Jews forcibly removed Jesus' beard to dishonor him (Isa 50:6). The Jewish saying goes, "A man without a full beard is a man without honor."