Good answer.  I suspect a lot of paintings and images of Jesus over the centuries have been motivated by politics of one sort or another.

You may have a point. I note a lot of reddish brown hair in the larger mosaic. There are a lot of redhead Isrealis these days. I believe the term i heard is "gingique"? Not sure of spelling. Lighter features in modern Jews might also be attributed to groups that returned with extensive European DNA as the new state of Isreal was created.  A former coworker of mine, a light colored fellow of Dutch Jewish descent, moved to live in Isreal back around 2000. He had almost blond hair.

Another version:

If he can rise from the dead I don't care what color zombie he was

The people of the Middle East are not the same people today either so they can't be used as a example of what Jesus would have looked like. When the Arab Muslims over ran the Middle East in the 600s, they not only raped everything in sight themselves, but they started the black slave trade and brought slaves with them to the area from East Africa. The average person in Iraq is 20% black due to that, Palestine is up to 15%, that's the general trend. There are other blood lines that came in as well.

On the other hand, the Christian-heavy parts of the ME didn't trade in black slaves even though they were under the Muslim boot. They paid the Dhimmi poll tax for being non Muslim and then were left alone in their villages. That includes Syria and Lebanon until a few centuries ago. If you look at Assad of Syria he looks like a southern Italian with blue eyes. His background is Shia Muslim but there is a high chance that his recent ancestors converted from Christianity so that they could advance in life - under Sharia law, non-Muslims can't have any position of power over a Muslim, so to advance means converting...

I'm not saying Jesus looked like a white guy, but he certainly wasn't black or dark brown. Not that it should matter but it's brought up a lot thanks to the left and Democrat media harping on about "white Jesus" and trying to make it one.

Master with a nailgun too apparently.

When I was an atheist, I too believed what you said.  Then I researched on my own, instead of believing other’s montra.  The evidence is irrefutable that he was real, that he existed during the time frame documented.  That he fulfilled the prophecies written hundreds to thousands of years before he appeared.

It’s up to us whether we accept who he says he was.  “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Yea this is definitely the one thing that is a fact: Jesus was a real person who did really exist and went though everything it says he went through.

Who he was and why he suffered that way could theoretically be the only thing up for debate.

There are so many millions of people against the idea of him, it would have been proven without a doubt he never existed, if it were really true.

That had been going on a long time before 0 AD.  
So what color do you think he was?
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What did Jesus look like?

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We know what the jews of that area looked like.  It’s not controversial.   This has already been explained extensively in this thread.  Like this, but more likely brown eyes.
 Jesus weeps at the utter ignorance and distain for history.

Like other poster mentioned, he looked like everyone else around him, so middle eastern ethnicity.