There is precious little
reference to Jesus of Nazareth’s physical description in the scriptures. After all,
that's not the point anyways. Just as a disclaimer, I don’t necessarily endorse the references cited as having historical authenticity. Either way, these are very interesting.
Isaiah 53:2 He had no form or splendor that we should look at Him,
no appearance that we should desire Him.
Esdras 2
I, Ezra, saw on Mount Zion a great
crowd, which I couldn’t number. They were all praising the Lord together with
songs. In their midst was a tall young man, standing above all the rest. He
placed crowns on each of their heads, and they were further honored.
I began to wonder, and I asked an
angel, “Who are these people?”
The angel answered me, “These are the
ones who took off the mortal garment and put on the immortal and confessed the
name of God. Now they are being crowned, and they are receiving palms.”
I said to the angel, “Who is that
young man who gives them crowns and palms?”
The angel answered, “That is God’s
Son, whom they confessed in the mortal world.”
I began to praise and celebrate the
Lord. The angel said to me, “Go announce to his people how many wonders the
Lord God has shown you.”
The Archko
Volume, translated by Drs. McIntosh and Twyman of the Antiquarian Lodge, Genoa,
Italy, from manuscripts in Constantinople and the records of the Senatorial
Docket taken from the Vatican of Rome (1896) 92-93:
"I asked him to describe this
person to me, so that I might know him if I should meet him. He said: 'If you
ever meet him [Yeshua] you will know him. While he is nothing but a man, there
is something about him that distinguishes him from every other man. He is the
picture of his mother, only he has not her smooth, round face. His hair is a
little more golden than hers, though it is as much from sunburn as anything
else. He is tall, and his shoulders are a little drooped; his visage is thin
and of a swarthy complexion, though this is from exposure. His eyes are large
and a soft blue, and rather dull and heavy....' This Jew [Nazarite] is
convinced that he is the Messiah of the world. ...this was the same person that
was born of the virgin in Bethlehem some twenty-six years before...”
From a
manuscript in the possession of Lord Kelly, and in his library, and was copied
from an original letter of Publius Lentullus at Rome.
“There appeared in these our days a
man, of the Jewish Nation, of great virtue, named Yeshua [Jesus], who is yet
living among us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but
His own disciples call Him the Son of God- He raiseth the dead and cureth all
manner of diseases. A man of stature somewhat tall, and comely, with very
reverent countenance…”
Third Book of Hermas, Called Similitudes, Part 2, Similitude 9
117"With those is the Lord encompassed as with a wall; but the gate is the Son of God, who is the only way of coming to God. For no man will go to God, but by his Son.
Third Book of Hermas, Called Similitudes, Part 2, Similitude 9
117"With those is the Lord encompassed as with a wall; but the gate is the Son of God, who is the only way of coming to God. For no man will go to God, but by his Son.
118. You saw also, he said, the six
men, and in the middle of them that venerable great man who walked about the
tower and rejected the stones out of the tower?
119. Sir, I said, I saw them. He
answered, That tall man was the Son of God, and those six were his angels of
most eminent dignity, who stand about him on the right hand and on the
left."
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