😱 Eye-Witness of Jesus! Letter of Lentulus Describes Jesus in Great Detail to Caesar of Rome! 😱

Something truly incredible has just been discovered: a famous letter by the Roman Aurelius Lentulus describes Jesus Christ in great detail.

Lentulus was an eyewitness to Jesus, and he sent letters to Caesar in Rome, reporting on the events occurring in Judea.

This letter provides a fascinating description of Jesus Christ, and trust me, you won’t want to miss what I reveal at the end of this video.

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Many artworks and paintings around the world depict Jesus as a white man; however, the most reproduced image of Jesus of all time comes from a different period.

It is the “Head of Christ” created by artist Warner Sallman in 1940.

Sallman, a former commercial artist, successfully marketed this image worldwide through partnerships with two Christian publishing companies—one Protestant and one Catholic.

His painting has been included on everything from prayer cards to stained glass, oil paintings, calendars, and nightlights.

Sallman’s portrayal culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating images of Christ made in their own likeness.

However, the historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin typical of first-century Jews from Galilee, a region in biblical Israel.

No one knows exactly what Jesus looked like, as there are no known images of him from his lifetime.

While the Old Testament describes kings Saul and David as tall and handsome, little indication exists regarding Jesus’s appearance in the Old or New Testaments.

Even these texts present contradictions: the Old Testament prophet Isaiah states that the coming savior had no beauty or majesty, while the Book of Psalms claims he was “fairer than the children of men,” with “fair” referring to physical beauty.

This is where the famous letter by the Roman Aurelius Lentulus becomes significant, as it describes Jesus in great detail.

We have numerous eyewitness accounts, including letters from Pontius Pilate, who was the governor of Judea during the time of Jesus’s ministry.

Pilate regularly communicated with Rome, providing updates about the events in the Holy Land.

We also possess a letter from the high priest Gamaliel, who was the Apostle Paul’s teacher and believed in Jesus after his resurrection.

This letter is preserved in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

However, the only physical description of Jesus that exists comes from a copy of a letter from the Roman Consul Lentulus to Emperor Tiberius, discovered in a monastery alongside other ancient documents.

The original letter, dated to the 12th year of Tiberius’s reign, is historically verified.

Lentulus describes Jesus as having a noble and lively face, with fair and slightly wavy hair, black and strongly curving eyebrows, and intense blue eyes.

He notes Jesus’s long nose, almost blonde beard, and well-proportioned tanned face that conveys gravity and wisdom, sweetness and goodness, completely lacking any sign of anger.

This description reflects Lentulus’s observations of Jesus’s wonderful works, preaching, and miracles.

He writes to the Roman Senate, stating that there has appeared a man of great power named Jesus Christ, called the Prophet of Truth by the Gentiles, who raises the dead and heals diseases.

Lentulus portrays Jesus as a man of middling height and comely appearance, with a reverend countenance that inspires both love and fear.

He describes Jesus’s hair as the hue of an unripe hazelnut, smooth but curling locks somewhat darker and more shining over his shoulders.

Jesus has a calm brow, a face without wrinkle or blemish, and a full beard that is not long but slightly pointed at the chin.

His expression is simple yet mature, with gray clear eyes that can be terrible in admonition but kind and lovable in demeanor.

In stature, Jesus is tall and straight, with fair hands and arms.

In conversation, he is grave, reserved, and modest, earning the title of “fairer than the children of men” from the prophet.

This description aligns closely with traditional portraits of Jesus and was likely written in the presence of one of the Greeks, who also had similar detailed descriptions of the apostles and the Virgin Mary.

Interestingly, we can combine Lentulus’s description with information gathered from the Shroud of Turin to create a more complete physical description of Christ.

Professor Giovanni Judika Cordiglia, a scholar of the Shroud, utilized his expertise as a doctor and university professor of forensic medicine to interpret the data collected from the Shroud.

He concluded that the man wrapped in the Shroud was of great beauty and uncommon stature, approximately 1.80 meters tall with a perfectly proportioned physique.

Despite damage to the cloth, it is evident that his face was soft and gentle, with a long shape and a broad, straight forehead.

The nose is straight and slightly turned downwards, and the cheeks are large and slightly protruding.

Anthropometric calculations suggest that Christ was in far better physical shape than the average man, with a cranial capacity indicating extraordinary genius.

Now, let’s take a look at the opinions of others regarding Jesus’s appearance.

The church fathers of the 2nd century, Justin Martyr and Origen, refer to Isaiah 53:2, arguing that Jesus’s appearance was unremarkable, stating he had “no form nor glory nor beauty.”

Conversely, Origen and others refer to Psalm 45:2, suggesting Jesus was the most handsome of men, indicating that people’s perceptions of Jesus varied based on their spiritual responses to him.

St. Augustine proposed that everyone has their own image of Jesus, stating that the physical face of the Lord is imagined in infinite variety.

He emphasized that what truly matters is that we think of him as a man.

The 4th-century Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem added that the Savior appears in various forms according to individual needs, adapting himself to those who lack joy, offer prayers, or seek forgiveness.

Interestingly, early depictions of Jesus often portrayed him as a youthful, Apollo-like deity.

However, after Emperor Constantine protected Christianity in the 4th century, images of Christ shifted dramatically to depict a bearded Jesus.

Did you know that the first portraits of Christ were believed to be self-portraits?

These miraculous images were thought to be created without human hands, originating from a legend that Christ healed King Abgar of Edessa through an impression of his face.

This belief led to the creation of the Mandylion, a relic that became significant in Western Christianity.

The legend recounts how, before his crucifixion, Christ left an impression of his face on the veil of Saint Veronica, known as the Volto Santo or Holy Face.

These artifacts reinforced the iconic tradition of a bearded Christ with shoulder-length dark hair.

During the Renaissance, European artists began to combine the icon and portrait styles, depicting Christ in their own likeness.

For instance, the 15th-century Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina created images of the suffering Christ formatted like portraits of ordinary people.

Similarly, the 16th-century German artist Albrecht Dürer blurred the lines between the holy face and his own image in a self-portrait.

This phenomenon was not limited to Europe; there are also 16th and 17th-century depictions of Jesus featuring Ethiopian and Indian figures.

However, the image of a light-skinned European Christ began to influence other parts of the world through European trade and colonization.

For example, the Italian painter Andrea Mantegna’s “Adoration of the Magi” from 1505 features three distinct Magi representing Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, yet Jesus is depicted with light skin and blue eyes, suggesting he is not Middle Eastern but European.

The faux Hebrew script embroidered on Mary’s garments complicates the relationship with the Judaism of the Holy Family.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what Jesus looked like; what truly matters is that all baptized believers in Christ can be assured of one thing.

There will come a day, at the end of our earthly lives, when Jesus will greet us in the courts of the Heavenly Sanctuary.

On that day, we will see him face to face in a reality beyond time and space, and he might have a visage that no one could ever imagine.