The Gospels never describe what Jesus looked like. No height, no build, no weight, no face — nothing at all, which for an ancient biography is genuinely strange. What can be said, and how Any estimate is an inference from the population, not from the text. Skeletal remains from first-century Judea and Galilee suggest adult men averaged somewhere around 1.6 to 1.7 metres — roughly five feet three to five feet seven — and were lean, because the diet was…

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