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Comments by "John Luetjen" (@jehl1963) on "Earliest Depictions of Jesus in Art" video.
It would appear that Jesus was a pretty normal looking guy with no unique features since on the night that he was captured, the temple guards needed Judas to point him out. Keep in mind that he had entered into Jerusalem with considerable fanfare just a few days before in front of a lot of people. So all of the images you show really are a better reflection of what the artist thought he might look like based on their own experiences and biases. I guess a interesting related question is how did people look and dress in 1st century Jerusalem? It was a fairly cosmopolitan city (in spite of also being considered by the Romans to be of minor importance) since each year Jews from all over the empire would visit it during Passover. These Jews would have dressed and presented much like others from their particular part of the empire.
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