What color is Jesus?

I read a proclamation on social media not long ago from a pastor ...it went something like this “my leader is a brown Jewish man named Jesus”. 

 First, It’s awesome that someone will openly admit to following Jesus and commit their life to preaching Gods Word ( their feet are beautiful!) 

Second, it’s entirely possible that Jesus was “brown”. I went to Hebrew school with a sect of Ethiopians who were Jewish and very dark skinned. But He also may have been “white”, as many Jewish people are. The Bible doesn’t tell us his skin color...either way, and I think the omission of it is worth noting. It only tells us that he was despised and rejected, that He had no beauty that we should desire Him( Isaiah 53).

 I understand the sentiments of a white gentile believer wanting to add that Jesus was “brown”. You’re trying to break the American church away from the perception of Jesus looking like a Swedish tennis player and crush racism , I get it. It’s just that the scriptures don’t say that...just as they don’t say He was “white”. Maybe we don’t need to add to Gods Word? . Perhaps it is Intentional He didn’t tell us . The Lords focus has never been on outward appearance...it’s always our hearts. 

 Will you still follow Him if He’s white? Will you still follow Him if He’s black? That’s the heart issue. No need to add to Jesus to serve itching ears...Hes enough and so is His Word.

 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7