was jesus black?

[bodybeatrock]

was jesus black?

[janela]

jesus may well have been black, or at least brown, after all he was a jew, born in the middle east - think of what people from that part of the world look like. He almost certainly did not look like a white european.

[gary baldy]

Almost certainly. Dark skinned at least.

[spacechimp]

he called everyone brother and he couldn't get a fair trial.

[don1]

I've never seen a dark skinned jew, jews are white????

[Lonnie]

Jesus was born a pure middle easterner, so he would have had the same colouring as the present day Arabs, in fact, apart from the religion, there would have been no difference between them.

[spacechimp]

Actually don1 it was found that a tribe of black people in Ethiopia which practiced all of the Jewish rituals and claimed to be Jewish, was Jewish.

[johnlambert]

His skin would have been olive coloured,

incidentley, the pictures we see of how Jesus looked were actually representations of..................................................

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Zeus ancient god of the Greeks

[don1]

We live and learn.

[gary baldy]

don1 - Sammy Davis Junior?

[rugeleyboy]

i was hoping spacechimps first answer was right!. LMAO

[Lonnie]

Not forgetting, that the Etheopian jews mentioned by spacechimp, trace their ancestry back to Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, (her with the hairy legs).

[spacechimp]

How ironic, they took people to Israel for safety.

[beerbelly]

I believe its the best selling novel .... EVER !

[spacechimp]

The Bible? If you mean this it's only because for centuries people have been manipulated into going to church and being Christian.

[jno]

brown rather than black, most likely, but surely not white - that's a north European colour. IaP, I believe the Ethiopians are still in Israel. You can visit one of the villages they left (I did last month; it now houses Christians who sell fairly ordinary handicrafts). They left to get away not so much from war as from persecution by the Mengistu regime, which is what Israel was created for.

[lilsusa]

Jesus was a Jew. Recheck history such as the Jews Hitler had tortured and gassed. They appear to be light-skinned. Right? Well the Bible says that the Savior would come from the line of Judah. David was in the line of Judah and the Bible says that David was "ruddy" meaning either red-haired or reddish skin. Ruddy does mean red. But it doesn't matter to me if he was purple. The skin color of Jesus seems to matter more to the Blacks.