I can't remember who posted that bit from Isaiah but thanks...that passage is a deeply moving one for me. I adore it.

Yeah...truth of the matter is no it doesn't matter what Jesus looked like...it's what he taught and ultimately what he did. Still it is interesting to speculate what he looked like in his earthly form.

Jesus was referred to as the Nazerene (and am I right in thinking the Nazerenes were a particular religious group who didn't believe in cutting their hair among other things?), he was supposed to have been born in Bethlehem, he traveled through Galilee and Jerusalem. I take the side of the group that says he looked like the folk from that area, it makes sense to me on a lot of levels that he'd look no different from anyone else from there.

The thing about Paul and the long hair...that may have been related to the fact that he wrote for a primarily Gentile/Greek?/Roman?(not sure...having a brain fart) audience and he may have been addressing specific manners of dress and so forth that would have related to their particular tastes