Jesus' Face

     Why do people keep trying to depict Jesus or figure out what He looked like? Does it really matter? The Bible says that there was nothing particularly attractive about Him (Isaiah 53:3), making Renaissance style art and most modern depictions quite inaccurate. Also, every culture, not just the West, tries to make Jesus look like themselves. We conform Him to our own image. All those blue-eyes Jesuses are simply wrong. He was Middle-Eastern, a Hebrew, a Jew through and through. 
     The Word says that He has become a spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45), so the body He once had probably doesn't exist anymore. Not to say it died, but rather, it was likely changed, just as the body of the Believer will one day be (2 Corinthians 5:4). What does a spirit look like? I don't think we can yet know.
     What is far more important than what His physical appearance was is what His character looked like. He was basically the human version of God, and we Christians are supposed to be imitators of God (Ephesians 5:1). Therefore, if we can understand how Jesus spoke, thought, and conducted Himself (which we can accomplish through studying Scripture and just getting to know Him), we will begin to look like Jesus.
     So if you want to know what Jesus looks like: Beauty. Grace. Truth. Love.