The following physical description of Jesus Christ conjures up the image of a charismatic candidate for president. The description comes from a forged document, allegedly written by Publius Lentulus, the Roman governor who succeeded Pontius Pilate. However, the document was actually written about 1500 years later in 1514:

He is a tall man, well shaped, and of an amiable and reverend aspect; his hair is of a color that can hardly be matched, falling into graceful curls ... parted on the crown of his head, running as a stream to the front after the fashion of the Nazarites; his forehead high, large and imposing, his cheeks without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with a lovely red; his nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry; his beard of a color suitable to his hair, reaching below his chin and parted in the middle like a fork; his eyes bright blue and serene.

The Bible says almost nothing, though, about the physical appearance of Jesus. What it does say is far different than the description above: "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2).