Until We Have Time Machines . . .

. . . we will never know what Jesus looked like. The Gospels give us few hints. (They do, however, tell us that Jesus was accused of being a glutton and was asked why he didn't fast. Might the Messiah have been a bit on the plump side?) I often have to find pictures of our Lord and Savior, and I am delighted whenever I find an image of a Jesus who doesn't look like Barry Gibb, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden circa 1992, or fifteenth-and-sixteenth-century German painter Albrecht Dürer, or who doesn't have fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. So I was happy to stumble upon this image of Jesus of Nazareth at Wikipedia. The image is based on a reconstruction (by Richard Nieve) of the face of a first-century Palestinian Jewish man and was prepared for the "Son of God" television series produced by the BBC, Discovery, and France 3.