Full of Grace and Truth
Graciously speaking truth to people is the mark of true Christianity.
Nobody knows what Yeshua (Jesus) Christos (the Messiah) looked like.
The Bible gives us no physical description of Jesus.
The prophet Isaiah (761 - 686 BC) made a prophetic statement about the coming Messiah:
“He has no stately form or majestic splendor that we would look at Him, nor a handsome appearance that we would be attracted to Him.” Isaiah 53:2
Remember Isaiah’s physical description of Jesus before discounting the wisdom and discernment of someone who doesn’t look like a movie star.
Jesus was an ordinary man physically, possibly even deemed ugly by others.
But there was something in Jesus that is rare in our day.
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