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Nobody Knows What Jesus Looked Like
You can picture his face right now. Long hair, soft beard, calm eyes. That face is not his, and it cannot be, because nobody who knew Jesus wrote down what he looked like or left a picture. The Gospels describe almost everything else and stay silent on this. So where did the face in your head come from? This episode traces it back through a commercial artist in 1940, through Byzantine icons, all the way to a painted wall in a Roman town where Christians had no face to copy and borrowed the one the culture handed them. What we found says more about us than about a carpenter from Nazareth…
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