https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_Lentulus also brings this letter: "Lentulus, the Governor of the Jerusalemites to the Roman Senate and People, greetings. There has appeared in our times, and there still lives, a man of great power (virtue), called Jesus Christ. The people call him prophet of truth; his disciples, son of God. He raises the dead, and heals infirmities. He is a man of medium size (statura procerus, mediocris et spectabilis); he has a venerable aspect, and his beholders can both fear and love him. His hair is of the colour of the ripe hazel-nut, straight down to the ears, but below the ears wavy and curled, with a bluish and bright reflection, flowing over his shoulders. It is parted in two on the top of the head, after the pattern of the Nazarenes. His brow is smooth and very cheerful with a face without wrinkle or spot, embellished by a slightly reddish complexion. His nose and mouth are faultless. His beard is abundant, of the colour of his hair, not long, but divided at the chin. His aspect is simple and mature, his eyes are blue-gray and bright. He is terrible in his reprimands, sweet and amiable in his admonitions, cheerful without loss of gravity. He was never known to laugh, but often to weep. His stature is straight, his hands and arms beautiful to behold. His conversation is grave, infrequent, and modest. He is the most beautiful among the children of men.
Therefore Jesus had light brown to blonde hair and beard (abundant beard), was of average height, his hair was long and probably covered the shoulders, being straight up to the ears, wavy and curled after those, therefore probably like the Orthodox Jews (one long curl to each side of the face and the rest of the hair wavy) and split in the middle, no moustache. His eyes were blue-gray and bright. His face had no wrinkle or spot. It was reddish, therefore white. His nose and mouth were faltless. His brow was smooth and very cheerful, therefore probably thick and lifted by the end of the eyes, framing them beautifully, so that we tend to concentrate more on the eyeball when staring at him but we still notice the perfection of the distance between it and the eye.
It is possible to find alternative physical descriptions for Christ but those seem to date from many years after his stay on earth and therefore cannot be trusted (at least 600 years later): the above description comes from a person who was contemporary to Jesus. For argumentation on that, please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbbaxUC4eSQ, since the speaker explains why the Islamic bible cannot be as trusted as the Christian bible in what regards the life of Jesus.
We conclude that it is not for nothing that Jesus was taken to a sinagoge by his parents when little and then preached in those, having preached in no other temples, so no temples of any other faith. It was also for a good reason that he was tagged King of the Jews when on the cross: his looks, taking away color of hair, beard and eyes, were those of a typical Orthodox Jew, possibly taking away head cover (even though https://associationforjewishstudies.org/headcoverings#:~:text=Eric%20Silverman%3A%20There's%20no%20evidence,for%20that%20matter%2C%20distinctive%20clothing says that the Jews did not necessarily covered their heads back then).
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