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Legend says that when Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper he used a young man’s face as a model for Jesus’s that radiated the Christ’s nobility, wisdom, and gentleness. Twenty years later, da Vinci also used a model for Judas, a man whose face was scarred with years of crime, pain, and drunkenness—meant to depict the darkness in Judas’s heart. While being painted, it is said that the model for Judas began to weep and explained that twenty years earlier he had been the model for Jesus.
I’ve heard it said that the thrust of the legend is that in due time our true face will reveal itself. It could also simply illustrate how much a life can be changed by poor decisions. We all have choices, and we all have consequences.
But I use this story to introduce the topic of Jesus’s appearance. No doubt that as an artist, da Vinci took some creative liberty to depict Jesus as a loving savior and king. Da Vinci used Jesus’s appearance/face to depict his character, but the reality is that we know very little about the Nazarene carpenter’s appearance because the Bible’s information on the topic is sparse.
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