What color is Jesus' skin?
The short answer
As a Palestinian Jew, Jesus probably looked like modern-day Israelis. Because his mission was to the whole world, peoples are free to depict him as one of their own, and such images show the universality of the Incarnation.
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew, so he probably looked much like Israelis today.
Because his mission was to the whole world, different peoples are free to portray him as one of their own. That is why there are statues and icons of a Caucasian, African, Native American or Asian Jesus. Such images express the universality of the Incarnation.
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