You did a bit more than "take the commas out", Jim...

The point is, there's a historical Jesus, and obviously enough, as a Palestinian Jew, he'd have looked like a Palestinian Jew.

But when it comes to religious images , the relevant thing isn't givinh a picture of what he actually looked like, but providing a way of bringing him home to worshippers as someone who is close to them, a brother, a son. That's what the Incarnation is about, when you get down to it. So the best way to paint him is portray him is like that, not as someone who looks like they belong in a distant country, some kind of tourist.