What colour was Jesus?

Answer 1

Mary the mother of Jesus Christ was a Jewish woman, and no different looking than any other Jewish woman of her time. Since she was Semitic, she no doubt had olive colored skin and brown eyes and hair.

Answer 2

Jesus Christ was white in skin color. The American Indian are said to be waiting for the return of a bearded white God.

'White' is comparative - he would have had a swarthy, half-olive complexion, like most Middle Easteners.

Answer 3

Most likely the same as Jewish people today. As 'Semitic' peoples, they would have olive or ruddy skin tone.

Answer 4

Jesus was Jewish.

Answer 5

Jesus' family is from Nazareth a city in Israel, which is a country in Arabia. The religion of the people in this area was tied to there ethnicity, the people were jewish. When Jesus was born all Jewish people looked the same; but now there are several types of jewish people Ashkanazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi. This is because the jewish people began to leave arabia and enter Europe, the Ashkanazi are mixed with central europeans and the Sephardic are mixed with iberans, but the Mizrahi never left arabia and are most likely the closest representation of what Jesus would have looked like. So the Mizrahi are basically the same as most arabian people, there skin is brown to light brown. I assume that the idea that Jesus is white came from people knowing he was jewish but there were already jewish people moving west at this time when people started to believe in Jesus so that caused people to think that the mixed Jewish people are what Jesus looked like.