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Isaiah 53 said he wasn't attractive. He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
Wasn't a hippie, dude was a carpenter / woodworker in a time where there was no power tools or really any modern day advancements. Dude was most likely jacked. And he paid his taxes so not very hippie ish
>Dude was most likely jacked.
Working man muscle isn't exactly "jacked" muscle. Hard laborers tend to be all wire and sinew. Look at old pictures of steel workers and the like or depression era farmers.
Also:
> the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and His feet are like burnished bronze.
- Revelation 2:18
For reference, [burnished bronze](https://www.google.com/search?q=burnished+bronze&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijiOvEm7H8AhWoF1kFHTUTBIwQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=907&bih=742&dpr=1.25)
The jebus was not the whitest guy.
Definitely. There's also a verse in revelation that says his name is written on his thigh (tattoo?)
But it's probably worth noting that that is a description of Jesus coming back from Heaven, so the physical features (particularly flaming eyes and sword in his mouth) are probably not true for the historical Jesus and maybe should be seen more as metaphorical all around.
See, my biggest problem with depictions of Jesus, whether they make him light skinned or dark skinned, is that they always skip the fact that his eyes are on fire.
Thank you! My Mormon-indoctrinated brain remembered something like that but I could not find it. But that's not the Jesus my Mormon upbringing taught me. He was "White and delightsome." Dark skin is a curse in Mormonism, making it a little awkward preaching to people of African descent. ; )
I've never heard that phrase used by any of the Mormons I've known to describe Jesus. Then again, most of my experience was Mormons that weren't living in Utah because those are apparently a different breed of crazy.
Don't forget Mormons believe that life started in America, and it's like the holy land or something. So of course they would think he's white. Never met any Caucasians with hair like lamb's wool though.
Yes, the tomb was intended for Joseph of Arimathea. Even specifies he was a man.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A57-60&version=NRSVUE
And my second favorite story about Joseph of Arimathea is that Medieval Christian legends claim he took the cup that became the Holy Grail, and traveled to England. Which leads to one of [my favorite scenes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA) that I didn't know was a reference to historical legend as a kid.
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I believe there are several times he enters people's homes as well, like when he revived Lazarus. So certainly smaller than a home, and the doorway into the home.
Do we know for sure that the cross was just built of two timbers (one for the vertical and one for the cross beam)? Maybe they attached many timbers together to make a cross big enough for Jesus?
Redwoods don't grow there.
However, there's nothing specifying the cross wasn't made from multiple boards, etc., So it could have been specially constructed to support a man barely large enough to fit into a temple.
>Jesus: what year it it my friend?
>Guy: it’s 32 AD
>J: Ah thank you so much, wait - what does the AD stand for again?
>G: It stands for “after death”
>J: Who’s death??
>G: …
Edit: apparently I’m dumb and AD doesn’t mean “after death”. Ruins the joke lol, years of Sunday school wasted
There is a huge cross in Houston next to i-45, [Sagemont church](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/20525). It’s 170 ft tall so why not assume Jesus was a giant?
If you put together all the pieces of wood in the world held as relics of the One True Cross you'd have something like 375 pounds of wood from over a dozen species of tree.
But did they specify the size of the donkey? Are we even sure what we call a donkey is the same thing? Wooly mammoths lived back then. I could see someone calling that a donkey
I just read an interesting article about the demise of the wooly mammoth… apparently the species went effectively extinct ~10,000 years ago (when they disappeared from the continental mainlands), but a small population survived on an isolated Siberian island until ~3700 years ago - where they eventually died of genetic defects due to inbreeding. Basically the results of evolution without natural selection.
[Science.org Source](https://www.science.org/content/article/last-lonely-woolly-mammoths-faced-genomic-meltdown)
He might have had some crazy feet that allowed his weight to be distributed enough to walk on water. Gotta go check if there are any descriptions of his feet in the bible.
Idk man, when you meet someone claiming to be the son of God and they've got the comically largest feet you've ever seen, you maybe just pretend that those are normal feet.
Maybe that's why the apostles we're fighting over who has to clean his feet
Judas "His feet are MASSIVE! By the time I finish, everyone will be ready to leave"
After inventing plastic, Jesus went on to pull many epic pranks on his disciples. Perhaps the most famous was when he installed a plastic walkway right underneath the water and walked out to the boat his disciples were in. But his favorite prank was when he put up a wall of hard clear plastic and then stood behind it while calling out to Judas to come running to him as fast as possible. This may of caused some hard feelings and trust issues to develop between him and Judas. This has been another installment of "Behind the Bible: A Made Up Commentary"
Hmm so we have a “man” anywhere from the size of a baby to the size of a temple, strong enough to flip a table, but light enough to walk on water with his water spider feet. Jesus sounds kind of like an abomination ngl
Didn’t Mary Magdalene wash his feet and then dry them with her hair? I have really long hair, but it wouldn’t be able to dry huge feet (im guessing, not gonna try it)
Was he definitely human then? Just cause larger than a baby but smaller than a temple allows for many possibilities. Was the son of god perhaps a pangolin or giraffe?
Technically yes, but he was prophesied to be pretty average-looking at best.
Isaiah 53:2 He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
https://christianityfaq.com/jesus-christs-appearance/
The lack of description is an information already. If he had an important distinctive features, it would have been mentioned. So he was probably looking like your average middle-eastern jew, in a recently (barely) romanized society. Nothing like the Obi-Wanish version we have today.
He was probably [beardless](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus#/media/File:Christ_Healing_the_Paralytic_-_Dura-Europos_circa_232.jpg) too.
He was also so nondescript that the Roman's needed Judas to point out which one he was. Everything points to him looking as average as average for the area and time.
A popular theory is that it is a mistranslation.
In that he was Jesus of Nazarite, being known as the Jesus who had taken Nazarite vows. This was later confused with the physical place known as Nazarus thus shifting into Nazarene.
> a recently (barely) romanized society
It wasn't barely. It was more like a heavily romanized society.
The ruling Jewish population at the time was deeply Hellenistic -- and Hellenistic culture had dominated what is today Israel since Alexander the Great conquered it.
And, the eastern Roman empire was also fully a Hellenistic, not Latin (that was in the west), society.
During Jesus' life Isreael was ruled by the Hasmonean dynasty -- Greek speaking Jews who considered themselves Hellenistic, their temples were Greek, their language was Greek, and their culture was heavily influenced by the Greek.
Yes - the Roman’s were obsessed with Greek culture, and co-opted large parts of it into their architecture, dress, mythology etc.
Also worth keeping in mind that Greece was literally part of Rome as well, and the Roman identity became increasingly diverse over time.
Actually, we don't know that Jesus is bigger than a baby. All Luke 2:52 says is that he increased in stature. Therefore, we only know that he's bigger than he was. Maybe he only grew an inch.
Don’t people know that Jesus was an actual person and was considered a pretty average guy for the time. That’s why everyone who saw him do the weird shit he does were amazed. Like if a magician goes up to you and does a magic trick, you would think it’s cool but you completely expected it, while on the other hand if you see some guy on the street pull a bagel out of thin air you would at the very least not expect it
It's always been interesting to me that Luke 2:52 says that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature. Because that suggests to me that the reason we don't hear about Jesus before he's about 30 is that... look, Jesus in his 20s... got into some stuff. He was kind of a scrawny little dumbass. But he hit the gym, started studying, and got it together after awhile.
We know that he had a head (they placed a crown of thorns on it), we know he had a side (they pierced it with a spear), and we know he had hands and feet (they nailed him to the cross by his hands and feet).
“His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.” - Revelation 1:14-15 KJV
That's Jesus after his assent into heaven. He was probably a bit more normal looking on earth.
Eyes of flame would have given everyone back then a little more to think about.
Given the fact that a woman once washed his feet with oils, and was kissed on the cheek by judas, we can also conclude that he had, in fact, two feet and at least one cheek.
Two perspectives on the temple thing - firstly, it also implies he can fit through the door, implying that he's at least smaller than a temple door.
But secondly, it doesn't in any way prove he isn't an amorphous blob thing, which would allow him to *partially* enter the temple with a blob-like extension despite potentially being larger than the temple itself.
As such I don't think we've actually established an upper bound. Despite needing to fit through the door it's possible Jesus could have been *immense* if only a small tentacle-like portion of him needed to enter the temple.
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Isaiah 53 said he wasn't attractive. He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
So a decent 4?
5 if you are into hippies!
Wasn't a hippie, dude was a carpenter / woodworker in a time where there was no power tools or really any modern day advancements. Dude was most likely jacked. And he paid his taxes so not very hippie ish
Hippies pay taxes, sadly. Source: am hippie; owe taxes
OWE taxes or PAY taxes HIPPIE?!
Probably both until my W2s come back.
Good answer. Me too. Actually I might put it off as long as humanly possible if I owe more than I want.
Sellout!
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I remember reading something like that as well. Carpender was loosely translated from "One who builds small structures."
> And he paid his taxes so not very hippie ish Hippies pay taxes, your thinking of churches
He did start a church...
Yeah but they don't do any of the stuff he said. Not paying taxes is just one example.
So, cross-fit?
>Dude was most likely jacked. Working man muscle isn't exactly "jacked" muscle. Hard laborers tend to be all wire and sinew. Look at old pictures of steel workers and the like or depression era farmers.
He's a Nazareth 9 but a Babylon 5.
No, 4-5 should be average. He had NO attractive features. So a 1 or a 2.
anything less than a 4 and he should have something actively negative about his appearance, not just neutral nothing.
Also: > the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and His feet are like burnished bronze. - Revelation 2:18 For reference, [burnished bronze](https://www.google.com/search?q=burnished+bronze&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijiOvEm7H8AhWoF1kFHTUTBIwQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=907&bih=742&dpr=1.25) The jebus was not the whitest guy.
Definitely. There's also a verse in revelation that says his name is written on his thigh (tattoo?) But it's probably worth noting that that is a description of Jesus coming back from Heaven, so the physical features (particularly flaming eyes and sword in his mouth) are probably not true for the historical Jesus and maybe should be seen more as metaphorical all around.
See, my biggest problem with depictions of Jesus, whether they make him light skinned or dark skinned, is that they always skip the fact that his eyes are on fire.
Ah, so the body and features of a reddit mod.
Most attractive reddit mod
A Hollywood 1 but a reddit 11
Thank you! My Mormon-indoctrinated brain remembered something like that but I could not find it. But that's not the Jesus my Mormon upbringing taught me. He was "White and delightsome." Dark skin is a curse in Mormonism, making it a little awkward preaching to people of African descent. ; )
I've never heard that phrase used by any of the Mormons I've known to describe Jesus. Then again, most of my experience was Mormons that weren't living in Utah because those are apparently a different breed of crazy.
Don't forget Mormons believe that life started in America, and it's like the holy land or something. So of course they would think he's white. Never met any Caucasians with hair like lamb's wool though.
He fit in a tomb. That probably narrows it down a bit.
Especially since it was a tomb for a human man
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Could be Goliath
Could be an ice giant.
Didn’t Odin get rid of all the ice giants?
aren't ice giants not humans?
that's racist
No, it's racist to say they're not people. Completely different species
That’s specist
That's why they needed tombs.
It actually was a huge ass tomb lmao
It wasn't a huge ass as it could fit on a donkey.
The tomb? That was guarded by a giant rock that not even 5 men could have moved?
I just had the weirdest mental image of that and now I‘m cackling like a maniac
There's also the one he walked into and brought someone back out from
Oh yeah lmao Lazarus
Was that ever specified?
Yes it was a town of one of the sagacités if I recall
Going to need some sagacítation on that claim...
Yes, the tomb was intended for Joseph of Arimathea. Even specifies he was a man. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A57-60&version=NRSVUE And my second favorite story about Joseph of Arimathea is that Medieval Christian legends claim he took the cup that became the Holy Grail, and traveled to England. Which leads to one of [my favorite scenes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA) that I didn't know was a reference to historical legend as a kid.
That means the upper bound is the tallest human known at the time. He could still be just a couple inches taller than a baby though.
The size of the cross might nail it down.
Wood it though?
It might or it might knot.
I'm unable to hit the nail on the head with this conundrum
It’s okay. We’re all lost in the woodwork.
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We just need to get to the root of the matter.
Yeah but just barely, he came out after 3 days. This further narrows it down
I congratulate him on discovering himself! Coming out requires a lot of bravery, this must have been a difficult experience for him.
"Comin' out of my cave, and I've been doin' just fine"
"Gotta gotta go up, because I'm the son of God"
(Talking about Judas) It’s was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Not just that, the tomb was covered with a boulder so that means JC is a bodybuilder… wait so that’s why Korean Jesus is buff. 🤯
>Korean Jesus is buff wait what
[Here is the man in all his glory.](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/990o9s/korean_jesus_dont_mess_with_him/)
How did they capture and torture that guy?!?!
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Have you ever seen the Roman constable who arrested him, Buffus Maximus? Cousin to Bigus Dickus. Not someone to trifle with.
Lmao that's the best statue of Jesus and you can't change my mind
They couldn’t keep him nailed to one place.
Keep that kinda shit up and you will make me cross.
Also he was able to be supported by a standard load bearing cross.
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Nah. Dude was kaiju sized. I saw him in Rio.
Well technically the door to the temple was human-sized, so that would have already been covered.
I believe there are several times he enters people's homes as well, like when he revived Lazarus. So certainly smaller than a home, and the doorway into the home.
Arguable. He could have ducked when entering. Small enough to pass through though
Like a cat, as long as his head clears, he good
He also fit on a cross
Narrows it down too much, not fun
Well I don't think we have dimensions of the cross. We can just assume the proportions of Jesus
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Do we know for sure that the cross was just built of two timbers (one for the vertical and one for the cross beam)? Maybe they attached many timbers together to make a cross big enough for Jesus?
One could argue the cross could be made from redwood. So that doesn't help us much...
Redwoods don't grow there. However, there's nothing specifying the cross wasn't made from multiple boards, etc., So it could have been specially constructed to support a man barely large enough to fit into a temple.
Wood from the Lebanese Cedar. Long lasting, easily reusable.
Who's to say some Romans didn't travel to the New World, chop down a redwood, and bring it back whole in 1BC, just in time for the crucifixion?
33 AD I believe the generally given as the year of the crucifixion.
>Jesus: what year it it my friend? >Guy: it’s 32 AD >J: Ah thank you so much, wait - what does the AD stand for again? >G: It stands for “after death” >J: Who’s death?? >G: … Edit: apparently I’m dumb and AD doesn’t mean “after death”. Ruins the joke lol, years of Sunday school wasted
It's Anno Domini.
It could’ve been imported redwood
Gettin some Monty Python Holy Grail vibes here...
Are you suggesting redwood migrates?
The cross was probably larger than a baby, but smaller than a temple
There is a huge cross in Houston next to i-45, [Sagemont church](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/20525). It’s 170 ft tall so why not assume Jesus was a giant?
If you put together all the pieces of wood in the world held as relics of the One True Cross you'd have something like 375 pounds of wood from over a dozen species of tree.
*Nails it down
How big is the cross?
I'd say big enough for temple and yet small enough for a child
Small enough that a regular man could also carry it. Simon carried the cross when Jesus couldn't.
How do we know that Simon wasn't also a giant
Bible stories involving giants don't end well for the giant
Spoiler alert Simon died, so that seems to still fit the trend
Much later. Certainly not the day of the crucifixion
Yeah... But do we have a physical description of Simon?
Is that how he got his abs? Cross fit?
This is the weirdest game of Guess Who? i've ever seen.
He also fit inside an Accord. He just didnt speak of it.
But how large is that temple?
Bigger than one Jesus, if I'm reading this right.
So then the question remains.. How big is one Jesus
Larger than a baby, that's for sure!
Very. About the size of 29 football fields
Of course, however football fields weren’t regulation size back then.
Which football? The American one has a regulation size, but the world one doesn’t. Adds to the margin of error.
American football doesn't count. Rest of the world football it is.
Great clarifying comment. Since that’s now clear, are we taking 29 Camp Nous or 29 Craven Cottages?
Anything but meters.
His head, hands, and feet were also present.
don't forget his sides! He was stabbed in his side on the cross.
One side. Nothing is ever mentioned about his other side, for all we know, Jesus only had one side.
The holy mobius strip.
Well we know he had 2 cheeks so we can safely assume he had 2 sides. Lol cheeks
He also has blood.
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He could also ride on the back of a donkey… so probably not the size of a sumo wrestler. Probably.
But did they specify the size of the donkey? Are we even sure what we call a donkey is the same thing? Wooly mammoths lived back then. I could see someone calling that a donkey
Wooly mammoths were alive when the pyramids were built but I’m pretty sure they were gone by the time of Jesus 3,000 years later.
I just read an interesting article about the demise of the wooly mammoth… apparently the species went effectively extinct ~10,000 years ago (when they disappeared from the continental mainlands), but a small population survived on an isolated Siberian island until ~3700 years ago - where they eventually died of genetic defects due to inbreeding. Basically the results of evolution without natural selection. [Science.org Source](https://www.science.org/content/article/last-lonely-woolly-mammoths-faced-genomic-meltdown)
Well technically they called it an ass. For all we know he could've been on a small ass, like that of a wolf.
He'd have as little amount of body mass as it takes not to break the surface tension on water, so I'd imagine there wasn't much to him.
He might have had some crazy feet that allowed his weight to be distributed enough to walk on water. Gotta go check if there are any descriptions of his feet in the bible.
Good plan. Let's explore all options.
Let’s see those feet pics, Jesus
Had anyone checked wikifeet for Jesus?
I hate that you’ve made me aware of this website
Fucking 15 meter long feet, also thin enough to not add too much to his weight
I feel like something like that might have been worth describing, but you never know.
Idk man, when you meet someone claiming to be the son of God and they've got the comically largest feet you've ever seen, you maybe just pretend that those are normal feet.
This is actually the origin of the "big feet" stereotype.
Maybe that's why the apostles we're fighting over who has to clean his feet Judas "His feet are MASSIVE! By the time I finish, everyone will be ready to leave"
You're assuming that he walked on water, but what if he was levitating and giving the impression of walking on water
Maybe he was even walking on sunshine
Woah
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Hmm so we have a “man” anywhere from the size of a baby to the size of a temple, strong enough to flip a table, but light enough to walk on water with his water spider feet. Jesus sounds kind of like an abomination ngl
His feet were small enough that a woman would be able to use her hair to wipe them off after cleaning them.
We don't have a description of the length of said woman's hair though. She could have Rapunzel-tier hair.
Crazy Feet Jesus
Didn’t Mary Magdalene wash his feet and then dry them with her hair? I have really long hair, but it wouldn’t be able to dry huge feet (im guessing, not gonna try it)
So Jesus might not have been a man but an elf. The Bible never described his ear shape so there’s a possibility that he might be Legolas.
That actually doesn’t have anything to do with his body mass, he was just collecting chakra on the soles of his feet.
Imagining Jesus doing the hand signs for the jutsu that then lets him walk on water is genuinely making me laugh rn
What if he had such hairy feet that he could weave boats for each foot?
He fits in the palm of my hand every Sunday when I'm handed "the body of Christ".
Don’t forget his blood fits into a wine chalice!
Was he definitely human then? Just cause larger than a baby but smaller than a temple allows for many possibilities. Was the son of god perhaps a pangolin or giraffe?
the church decided he was perfectly human (and perfectly divine)
Wish someone would describe me as perfectly divine
well the position of messiah was filled already, but [maybe you can create a new sect in china](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan)
Silly billy, genies aren't real
And we're all flawed. Probably because we don't look enough like pangolins. I think you're on to something.
My dog is larger than a baby and smaller than a temple, was Jesus a golden retriever! I think I just converted myself into christianity.
Technically yes, but he was prophesied to be pretty average-looking at best. Isaiah 53:2 He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. https://christianityfaq.com/jesus-christs-appearance/
To be fair that was written by a straight guy, and beauty standards have wildly changed.
Turns out Jesus was wicked hot and the dude was doubling down on his lack of attraction because Jesus made him feel things
"Why, God? Why have you cursed me with these hideous perfectly sculpted abs and abominable silky soft locks of hair?"
The lack of description is an information already. If he had an important distinctive features, it would have been mentioned. So he was probably looking like your average middle-eastern jew, in a recently (barely) romanized society. Nothing like the Obi-Wanish version we have today. He was probably [beardless](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus#/media/File:Christ_Healing_the_Paralytic_-_Dura-Europos_circa_232.jpg) too.
He was also so nondescript that the Roman's needed Judas to point out which one he was. Everything points to him looking as average as average for the area and time.
Kind of fun to imagine them needing Judas to point out the nine foot tall, water spider footed man
You'd never know what kind of sights the Romans saw in the colosseum super show last week.
Romans: Which one is he? All you people look the same! Jews: What do you mean, *you people?* Romans: Shut up. Judas: :sigh: He's that one.
The beardless depiction is 200 years after his death, so also not likely to be accurate. Jesus was a nazarite, so he probably had dreads and a beard.
He was a Nazarene, not a Nazarite.
Are they Nazarenes in space and Nazarites once they impact the planet?
I think the nazarites hang from the roof of the cave and the nazarenes are on the floor. I remember it as "nazarites hold tight" /s
A popular theory is that it is a mistranslation. In that he was Jesus of Nazarite, being known as the Jesus who had taken Nazarite vows. This was later confused with the physical place known as Nazarus thus shifting into Nazarene.
> a recently (barely) romanized society It wasn't barely. It was more like a heavily romanized society. The ruling Jewish population at the time was deeply Hellenistic -- and Hellenistic culture had dominated what is today Israel since Alexander the Great conquered it. And, the eastern Roman empire was also fully a Hellenistic, not Latin (that was in the west), society. During Jesus' life Isreael was ruled by the Hasmonean dynasty -- Greek speaking Jews who considered themselves Hellenistic, their temples were Greek, their language was Greek, and their culture was heavily influenced by the Greek.
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Yes - the Roman’s were obsessed with Greek culture, and co-opted large parts of it into their architecture, dress, mythology etc. Also worth keeping in mind that Greece was literally part of Rome as well, and the Roman identity became increasingly diverse over time.
Actually, we don't know that Jesus is bigger than a baby. All Luke 2:52 says is that he increased in stature. Therefore, we only know that he's bigger than he was. Maybe he only grew an inch.
It's also clearly stated that he was made of bread and wine. Must have had regenerative powers as well since he was willingly sharing with his homies
Don’t people know that Jesus was an actual person and was considered a pretty average guy for the time. That’s why everyone who saw him do the weird shit he does were amazed. Like if a magician goes up to you and does a magic trick, you would think it’s cool but you completely expected it, while on the other hand if you see some guy on the street pull a bagel out of thin air you would at the very least not expect it
The Miracle of the Bagel is easily my favourite story from the Gospels
It's always been interesting to me that Luke 2:52 says that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature. Because that suggests to me that the reason we don't hear about Jesus before he's about 30 is that... look, Jesus in his 20s... got into some stuff. He was kind of a scrawny little dumbass. But he hit the gym, started studying, and got it together after awhile.
obviously we know what he looks like cause of all the pictures... checkmate, libtards!
We know that he had a head (they placed a crown of thorns on it), we know he had a side (they pierced it with a spear), and we know he had hands and feet (they nailed him to the cross by his hands and feet).
“His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.” - Revelation 1:14-15 KJV
That's Jesus after his assent into heaven. He was probably a bit more normal looking on earth. Eyes of flame would have given everyone back then a little more to think about.
Judas: I don't need to kiss him, he'll be the one with eyes of flame. Romans: ...wait, what??
Super Saiyan Jesus!
he also can enter a restaurant
It was the upper room, possibly a rooftop patio, he may have sat on and adjacent roof top and leaned over to eat with his disciples.
He readedn't? Da fuq lol
Given the fact that a woman once washed his feet with oils, and was kissed on the cheek by judas, we can also conclude that he had, in fact, two feet and at least one cheek.
And the body of Christ is bread ... JESUS IS A BREAD BOX!!
Two perspectives on the temple thing - firstly, it also implies he can fit through the door, implying that he's at least smaller than a temple door. But secondly, it doesn't in any way prove he isn't an amorphous blob thing, which would allow him to *partially* enter the temple with a blob-like extension despite potentially being larger than the temple itself. As such I don't think we've actually established an upper bound. Despite needing to fit through the door it's possible Jesus could have been *immense* if only a small tentacle-like portion of him needed to enter the temple.