I also agree with Daylia's notion of how Jesus (as a spiritual beging, that is...) looks now, given that the spirit of a great being has an altogether more shining and beautiful appearance than a physical embodiment does. Having actually seen such a being, I can testify to that. However, I was speculating as to what Jesus looked like as a physical being back then, which is a different matter.

Lots of interesting comments here, and a few funny ones too. :-)

Regarding Guest's opinion about the "long hair" issue...and yes, I have heard that particular quote from Paul in Corinthians any number of times: "if a man has long hair,
it is a disgrace to him."

It was routinely used by various fundamentalist assholes back in the 60's and 70's to harass and criticize young men with "long hair".

Well, here's my take on it. Number 1, Paul said a whole bunch of weird stuff, and I don't take it all as gospel by any means. Number 2, how "long" is "long" in a given culture? Most human cultures (but not all) have customarily tended toward women having longer hair than men for some reason. So, in medieval times, a man might have had hair that was shoulder length or just past the shoulders, while a woman might have had hair that was all the way down to her belt. In that case, the man would be seen to have "short" hair, and the woman "long" hair.

But to a 20th century Christian North American dressed in a suit and a red tie, a man's hair is "long" if it's more than 2 inches long!

I think that Paul was probably stating that a man's hair should be shorter than a woman's. A woman's hair, in Paul's time was probably typically waist-length, having never been cut at all or just the ends trimmed. A man's hair was probably shoulder lenght or thereabouts.

They would both have "long hair" by 1955 North American terms, but NOT by their own terms. Only the woman would have long hair by their cultural terms.

Got it?

So take your "long hair" BS and buzz off, anonymous one. There is no dishonor in a man having hair longer than what you happen to be culturally accustomed to, and if Jesus' hair wasn't all the way down to his waist, then I propose that it wasn't "long" in the terms of his day and age.