We now have it on good authority (Megyn Kelly!!! What better authority could there be???) that Jesus, the Son of God, was (and therefore the living Christ presumably is) white.
Fox News celebrity glam girl and Jesus scholar Megyn Kelly has settled a longstanding question about whether Jesus was “white” with her informed and knowledgeable assertion that he was as white as Santa Claus. (For goodness sake let’s hope that Meg doesn’t get the news that Santa is not a real person.) Megyn’s scholarly pronouncement about the color of Jesus got me wondering–was Mary the Mother of Jesus blond and white like Megyn Kelly? All we know, really mostly, is that young Mary was humble and modest.
Jesus, as described in one of the “the suffering servant” scriptures in Isa., this one being from Isaiah 53: Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.
4 Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
9 They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth. .
Jesus at a Catholic Church in Melchor, Guatemala
Hmm, I doubt very seriously that a man named Jesus, born in the Middle-East, would be lily white – waddaya think? I think he may have the appearance of an Arabian man (perhaps a brown to olive complexion) but what do I know? I’m just not the Biblical Scholar that David Barton is (and am I ever glad)!!!!