So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen, Josephus) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance was less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. — Isaiah 53:2-3
You can read more on this exposition here.
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen, Josephus) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance is less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. — Isaiah 53:2-3
You can read more on this exposition here.
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance is less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. — Isaiah 53:2-3
You can read more on this exposition here.
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance is less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. — Isaiah 53:2-3
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia